To summit any one of Colorado’s 14,000 foot Rocky Mountains is a humbling and wholly rewarding experience. With this comes a vantage point well earned, and the feeling of being slightly closer to the heavens. Ascenters came to Colorado to share that experience, holding dear to the lessons of the Challenge from the get go, …
Coming back to Colorado Springs is always a special time for me. I was stationed here and still have family roots here. Brothers I've shared time all over the world with, and would do anything in the world for, are included in the family part. As we were planning GORUCK's nationwide launch this summer, ascending Pikes Peak, one of the storied and certainly most famous of the 14-ers in Colorado's Rockies, with a bunch of my brothers was tops on my list. And as time is precious in life and time with old friends even more so, this is an adventure I'll remember till the day I die.
