From here in the Front Range, sights of the snow  capped peaks are evidence that summer, and our short lived fall, are almost over. Actually, fall this year has been tremendous. Delicious weather and gorgeous colors in the Aspens. But you can tell that is about to end  very soon. With this in mind, I decided to try and accomplish one last camping goal that I had for this season: climbing another fourteener. That's how I found myself waking up at 4:45 a.m. this past Sunday, climbing into some semi-winter gear, and heading up into the mountains to climb Grays and Torreys Peaks.

As Marc noted in his last post, our annual trip took us to the Allegheny River, in western Pennsylvania. Four of us met in Cleveland the night of 7/21, and then headed to PA the morning of the 22^nd, where we met up with Kevin, who came from eastern PA. With one canoe among us, we had to rent two more to accommodate 5 people and our gear, food, and sundries. We spent two nights on the river, and