Hiking Colorado's Summits: A Guide to Exploring the County Highpoints (Hiking Guides)

A guide to Colorado's sixty-three counties includes information on hiking trails and each summit

The authors have been hiking in Colorado for the pasty two decades. They ran into each other at a party for the Highpointers Club and soon discovered that the counties of Colorado held a new challenge for them. County highpointing, or peakbagging taken to a new extreme, soon occupied their summer vacations, fall weekends, and winter spare time. John and Dave were off and runing, and the result, four years later, is this guidebook. Dave Covill was born in Massachusetts and first discovered Colorado on a geology field trip in college. He soon moved to Colorado for good and works for an oil company in Denver. He lives in Evergreen with his wife, Beckie , and teenage son, Chris, and has absolutely no spare time. Dave has summitted most of the state highpoints and Colorado's Fourteeners, and always has an eye out for a new list. John Mitchler was raised in rural Illinois where he gained an appreciation of nature on his parent's farm along the Fox River. After working as a geologist in the coal fields of Illinois, he came to Colorado as an employee of an environmental engineering firm. A fascination with maps and a love of travelling have taken him to the highpoint of 46 states to date, and helped him become the first person to reach the highest point of every county in Colorado. John lives in Golden with partner Wendy, and has never met a highpoint he didn't like.