Mount Evans

Mount Evans Scenic Byway, Colorado

So what if you drive most of the way to this Colorado Fourteener—at least we knew we would bag one 14,000 foot mountain on our Colorado trip—even that became questionable the farther we drove on the Mount Evans Scenic Byway. As we pulled into the parking lot, where the 0.25 mile trail to the summit is located, the rain set in, but that isn’t what almost kept us from reaching the summit—the event that gave us pause was so hair raising that it almost stopped us dead in our tracks. As we stepped on to the 14,264 foot summit we looked around and noticed a girl with long hair, we noticed her because her hair was standing straight up on the top of her head! Then within seconds, our hair was doing the same thing—we knew this meant that a lightning strike was imminent so we began running back down the trail to the safety of our car. Luckily, a strike never occurred, but we have to hold the record for the least time spent on the summit of a mountain.