The Incline hits you hard, and it hits you fast. I lived in Colorado Springs for a couple years, in between deployments, and no matter how acclimatized I got, it hit me hard. Every time. So now, whenever I’m back in town, of course I can’t wait to hit it up. Locals, military-types, and Olympic …
We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how many tickets we’ve racked up since our adventure began. We are experts at talking our way out of them, so the answer was zero, but Boulder had something to prevent yet another cop from loving our story and letting us off with a warning. The GORUCK Truck in lead, Jack following in disobedience. Captured on camera, Jack coolly runs the red in a friend’s truck. Ticket count for Team GORUCK now stands at 1, but stay tuned, a lot of miles left to cover.
From Henny at cache@goruck.com: GORUCK – I hiked up Pikes Peak with a couple group guys after we saw your adventure on the blog. We fought over the tactical hat but I won! Thanks, Henny
We rolled into town at halftime (ie Saturday night) of the weekend-long Brewers Fest and got a jump on Sunday with some local brews and dancing girls downtown. They roll in the kegs for the festivities, and there are so many good ones to choose from, but if you said that RLTW (Rangers Lead the Way), we would be hard pressed to argue.
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.
GR CACHE #3. We hide GORUCK gear. You find GORUCK gear, and keep it. Third dead drop: Lat/Long Coordinates (plug them in Google Maps): 38°50’28.2” N 105°02’33.4 W Pikes Peak, Colorado, elevation 14,100 feet. GR TAC is under the rocks pictured below. Hike up GORUCK style, earn your Scars and send us the story to cache@goruck.com. Happy Hunting.
