Pikes Peak Trip Report 09/11/2018

Peak(s):	Pikes Peak - 14,109 feet
Date Posted:	09/11/2018
Date Climbed:	09/08/2018
Author:	bergsteigen
Additional Members:	FoodieHiker, AnastasiaC, lfishsays, 14erAddict, RyGuy, JQDivide

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
Booty: Pikes Peak Mileage: 14 Elevation gain: 4,223' Trailhead: Crags Pirates: Me (Anne Bonny), Ryan (Blackbeard), Anastasia (Mary Read), Ezra (Black Bart), Nicole (Rachel Wall), Lindsay (Long John Silver), Dillon (Captain Flint), Karla (Grace O'Malley), Aubrey (Polly the parrot), Joel (Henry Every), Staci (Calico Jack), Jessica (Edward Low), Clayton (Charles Vane) Friday evening many of our crew sailed their ships south to find a safe port at the pirate's hideaway of Nassau (Divide, CO) and our gracious hosts Henry Every and Calico Jack. We loaded up on plenty of meat, wine and rum! Staying up late into the night, meant our early wake up muster call came too soon. But we had to raid Pikes Peak for the Pieces of Eight to be found on the summit! We almost had to make Captain Flint walk the plank, since he didn't want to be a pirate! I don't want to be a pirate! We sailed our fleet to the Crags Campground and got prepared to board the merchant ship Pikes. We raised the black, grabbed our cutlasses and pistols and started hiking up the rigging. Rapscallions on the trail All hands on deck Swashbuckler smiling All hands hoay Rum break Ascending the Crow's nest Capturing 13er Booty Blackbeard captures this image of me, as I stare out at the eastern seas Mary Read and Black Bart pose on the plank Calm seas behind Charge! Snow on the rigging Moar Rum! After a long battle with a formative foe, we captured our prize, the Urca de Pikes! Pieces of Eight for everyone! Final 14aaaarggghh Booty Prize! Advancing on the plunder Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Eight Ahoy, matey Ye bunch of scallywags! Aaaaaarrrrgh! After our crew photo, it was time to cheer on our retiring pirates. Sea Spray The shot, Black Bart don't care Dancing in the sea spray After the sea spray salute, it was time to break out the rum and start carousing! Three sheets to the wind, already Yarr black hearted biscuit weevil! Yarr salt crusted, mermaid marrying, tar stain! Yarr rum swigging lubber! Yarr treacherous sea dogs! Yarr larcenous, lily sniffing, sea boot! Yarr half perished, hook handed, matey! Yarr festering dinghy dangler! The Kracken!!!! Drunk Pirates don't know how to summit sign Fighting over the Pirate Booty Storming the sign This sign is ours too!!! After we had emptied the Urca de Pikes of all it's pieces of eight, it was time to head back to our own rigs. Pouring rum on a wound Rigging wound Stumbling Pirates Bunch of seadogs Stormy seas ahoy! Batten down the hatches! Tired but successful crew After a successful plunder, we sailed back to the Port of Nassau, to count our booty. We drank so much wine and rum, we had to crash where we were, spending another night in the comfortable pirate's cove. In all seriousness, I am so thankful to have met you guys at a Boulder HH quite awhile ago. Even more glad that I took up your offer to start hanging out more this year. You really helped me through a difficult time this winter, and I will always appreciate that Anastasia. Your mountain journey is just beginning, as lots of 13ers and other mountain adventures await. Lots of camping and campfires in our futures! It will be fun to watch and share in the progress you will make! Glad your passions have found root in the mountains! Thumbnails for uploaded photos (click to open slideshow):

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum

Booty: Pikes Peak

Mileage: 14
Elevation gain: 4,223'
Trailhead: Crags
Pirates: Me (Anne Bonny), Ryan (Blackbeard), Anastasia (Mary Read), Ezra (Black Bart), Nicole (Rachel Wall), Lindsay (Long John Silver), Dillon (Captain Flint), Karla (Grace O'Malley), Aubrey (Polly the parrot), Joel (Henry Every), Staci (Calico Jack), Jessica (Edward Low), Clayton (Charles Vane)

Friday evening many of our crew sailed their ships south to find a safe port at the pirate's hideaway of Nassau (Divide, CO) and our gracious hosts Henry Every and Calico Jack. We loaded up on plenty of meat, wine and rum! Staying up late into the night, meant our early wake up muster call came too soon. But we had to raid Pikes Peak for the Pieces of Eight to be found on the summit!

We almost had to make Captain Flint walk the plank, since he didn't want to be a pirate!

We sailed our fleet to the Crags Campground and got prepared to board the merchant ship Pikes. We raised the black, grabbed our cutlasses and pistols and started hiking up the rigging.

19041_08 — Blackbeard captures this image of me, as I stare out at the eastern seas

19041_09 — Mary Read and Black Bart pose on the plank

After a long battle with a formative foe, we captured our prize, the Urca de Pikes! Pieces of Eight for everyone!

19041_14 — Final 14aaaarggghh Booty Prize!

19041_16 — Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Eight

After our crew photo, it was time to cheer on our retiring pirates.

19041_22 — The shot, Black Bart don't care

After the sea spray salute, it was time to break out the rum and start carousing!

19041_20 — Three sheets to the wind, already

19041_25 — Yarr black hearted biscuit weevil!

19041_26 — Yarr salt crusted, mermaid marrying, tar stain!

19041_29 — Yarr larcenous, lily sniffing, sea boot!

19041_30 — Yarr half perished, hook handed, matey!

19041_31 — Yarr festering dinghy dangler!

19041_33 — Drunk Pirates don't know how to summit sign

19041_34 — Fighting over the Pirate Booty

After we had emptied the Urca de Pikes of all it's pieces of eight, it was time to head back to our own rigs.

19041_41 — Stormy seas ahoy! Batten down the hatches!

After a successful plunder, we sailed back to the Port of Nassau, to count our booty. We drank so much wine and rum, we had to crash where we were, spending another night in the comfortable pirate's cove.

In all seriousness, I am so thankful to have met you guys at a Boulder HH quite awhile ago. Even more glad that I took up your offer to start hanging out more this year. You really helped me through a difficult time this winter, and I will always appreciate that Anastasia. Your mountain journey is just beginning, as lots of 13ers and other mountain adventures await. Lots of camping and campfires in our futures! It will be fun to watch and share in the progress you will make! Glad your passions have found root in the mountains!

Thumbnails for uploaded photos (click to open slideshow):

Comments or Questions

JQDivide	Scallywags 09/11/2018 11:38 Scallywags, all of them pirates. 14errrrrrs! What a great day... or should I say 4-day party.
sigepnader	Awesomeness... 09/11/2018 11:45 Greatest trip report of all time!
RyGuy	Blimey! 09/11/2018 12:29 It was an honor to plunder the summit of Pikes with everyone and hoist the Jolly Roger! Excellent TR as usual!
Jon Frohlich	Well.... 09/11/2018 14:36 At least we know why the rum is gone. Mostly because I can find only one bottle of Kraken in these photos for this whole band of pirates. Really needed more rum.
AnastasiaC	Best day ever!!! 09/11/2018 15:07 You are the queen of trip reports, and itâ��s an honor to be featured in one if your write-ups! I love the way you captured fun spirit of the day. There is nothing better than trolling tourists, good laughs and champagne showers. Even Dillon got in full character when he decided to raid the doughnut house (oops, no dogs allowed ). Thank you for being there and for this awesome TR!
glenmiz	A mere flesh wound 09/12/2018 06:45 after all of that? Looks like a great time; congratulations, again, to Ezra and Anastasia!
bergsteigen	Thanks 09/14/2018 13:39 Joel - why only 1 day when you can do 4! Sigepnader - glad you liked it. These are the fun ones to write Ryan - plundered and not kicked out! Jon - yeah, only 1 bottle of rum, but 3 big champagne (3 little ones), and some fireball. There would have been casualties if there was more rum! Anastasia - wouldnâ��t have missed it! Writing a finisher TR is the least I could do to help remember the special day. At least we made it very interesting and fun time! Hopefully youâ��ll hike more 13ers and be in more TRâ��s ;) glenmiz - a flesh wound treated with rum. Glad that was it!

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