Yup… they sure did. Hiked all over that damn mountain.  I wish I was in attendance.

FOLLY Fun Facts // Pikes Peak:

Originally named “El Capitán” by Spanish settlers and later renamed Pikes Peak by Zebulon Pike Jr.  Good ol’ Zebulon was an explorer of sorts and essentially said… “This is Merica and we don’t need no mountain named ‘the captain’!”  Although Zeb changed the name after himself… the Arapaho Indian’s said “yeah… whatevs”, and preceded to call the mountain “heey-otoyoo” (that’s Arapaho for “long mountain”).

Heey-otoyoo stands tall at 14,115 feet and is one of Colorado’s 54 “fourteeners”.  

Brenton by Kyle

Photo by Kyle Steed

Being that Kyle is some 6’5″ or so… he stands over most normal folk.  You could imagine how tall he felt in this environment.

Kyle by Brenton

Photo by Brenton Little

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