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Contributed by: Brendan Leonard/YourHub.com on 6/9/2006

I had a rare Thursday off from the sweatshop that is YourHub.com World Headquarters yesterday, so my pal Scott and I took a little trip to the Lost Creek Wilderness near Jefferson and climbed Bison Peak.

Bison is pretty much unheard of because of its relative non-beauty when viewed from a few miles away. You don't look at it and say, "Wow," like you do when you see the Maroon Bells, or even Longs Peak.

However, the summit plateau holds what looks like an old playground for giant rocks the size of school buses, which is a pretty cool thing to see at 12,000 feet. My past Colorado mountain climbs have pretty much all gone like this:

1. Start hiking through thick forest of pine trees.
2. As trail becomes steeper, pine trees thin out. Steps become slower.
3. Trees disappear, route becomes all rocks. Steps are really slow.
4. Summit. View is unobstructed, 360 degrees. Beautiful. Very tired.
5. Go back to the car.

Bison Peak, on the other hand, was four miles of flat walking through a nice alpine meadow (where cows were grazing illegally and dropping huge cowpies on National Forest land) along a brook that intermittently disappeared, then about 1,500 feet of climbing to the city of rocks up top, where we goofed around, took photos, and took our time figuring out where the actual summit was, while a rainstorm cruised in, covering the entire western horizon.

Since it was a Thursday, we didn't see another soul the entire day until we were about a mile from the car, when we ran into two groups of 14 people, one from Meet The Wilderness, backpacking in to spend the night.

Also, when we got back, I ate an entire Canoli at the Edgewater Inn.
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