John Peel is a newspaper writer and editor, book author, and novelist, and has lived and hiked in Southwest Colorado since 1990. He has climbed more than half the state’s Fourteeners but these days gets as much of a thrill out of a good Thirteener. He lives with his wife, Judy, in Durango, Colorado. Paul Pixler was a retired professor of philosophy at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and a former chairman of the San Juan Chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club. He divided his time between Durango and southern Arizona and was an avid hiker.

• Preface to the Fifth EditionIntroductionGeneral InformationTechnologyHIKES IN AND NEAR DURANGOCity TrailsHogsbackPerins PeakDry Gulch to DurangoBarnroof PointColorado Trail: Junction to Gudy'sDry Fork-Hoffheins LoopAnimas City MountainLog ChutesRaider RidgeMeadow Loop-Telegraph TrailCarbon Junction TrailSale Barn-Cowboy LoopSkylineLA PLATA MOUNTAIN CLIMBSSliderock Trail to Kennebec PassTomahawk Basin-Diorite PeakCentennial Peak and SharkstoothHesperus MountainTransfer TrailMadden and Parrott PeaksGibbs PeakSilver MountainHIKES UP AND ON MISSIONARY RIDGEHaflin CreekStevens CreekMountain View CrestRed Creek-First ForkShearer CreekBurnt TimberHIKES BETWEEN DURANGO AND SILVERTONHermosa CreekJones CreekGoulding CreekChris ParkForebay LakeElbert Creek-Castle RockPurgatory FlatsCascade CreekPotato (Spud) LakePotato Hill (Spud Mountain)Engineer MountainGrizzly PeakGrayrock PeakHermosa PeakJura Knob (Coal Creek-Deer Creek)Crater Lake-North TwilightSnowdon PeakMolas TrailSultain-Grand TurkColorado Trail-Molas PassHIKES OUT OF SILVERTONHope LakeIce LakesUS Grant PeakColumbine TrailKendall MountainWhitehead PeakSilver LakeHematite BasinHighland Mary LakesContinental DivideVALLECITO AREA HIKESLake EileenVallecito CreekCave BasinPine RiverTHE AREA FOURTEENERSMount SneffelsHandies PeakRedcloud and Sunshine PeaksUncompahgre PeakWetterhorn PeakEthicsResourcesIndexAbout the Authors

John Peel is a newspaper writer and editor, book author, and novelist, and has lived and hiked in Southwest Colorado since 1990. He has climbed more than half the state’s Fourteeners but these days gets as much of a thrill out of a good Thirteener. He lives with his wife, Judy, in Durango, Colorado. Paul Pixler was a retired professor of philosophy at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and a former chairman of the San Juan Chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club. He divided his time between Durango and southern Arizona and was an avid hiker.

• Preface to the Fifth EditionIntroductionGeneral InformationTechnologyHIKES IN AND NEAR DURANGOCity TrailsHogsbackPerins PeakDry Gulch to DurangoBarnroof PointColorado Trail: Junction to Gudy'sDry Fork-Hoffheins LoopAnimas City MountainLog ChutesRaider RidgeMeadow Loop-Telegraph TrailCarbon Junction TrailSale Barn-Cowboy LoopSkylineLA PLATA MOUNTAIN CLIMBSSliderock Trail to Kennebec PassTomahawk Basin-Diorite PeakCentennial Peak and SharkstoothHesperus MountainTransfer TrailMadden and Parrott PeaksGibbs PeakSilver MountainHIKES UP AND ON MISSIONARY RIDGEHaflin CreekStevens CreekMountain View CrestRed Creek-First ForkShearer CreekBurnt TimberHIKES BETWEEN DURANGO AND SILVERTONHermosa CreekJones CreekGoulding CreekChris ParkForebay LakeElbert Creek-Castle RockPurgatory FlatsCascade CreekPotato (Spud) LakePotato Hill (Spud Mountain)Engineer MountainGrizzly PeakGrayrock PeakHermosa PeakJura Knob (Coal Creek-Deer Creek)Crater Lake-North TwilightSnowdon PeakMolas TrailSultain-Grand TurkColorado Trail-Molas PassHIKES OUT OF SILVERTONHope LakeIce LakesUS Grant PeakColumbine TrailKendall MountainWhitehead PeakSilver LakeHematite BasinHighland Mary LakesContinental DivideVALLECITO AREA HIKESLake EileenVallecito CreekCave BasinPine RiverTHE AREA FOURTEENERSMount SneffelsHandies PeakRedcloud and Sunshine PeaksUncompahgre PeakWetterhorn PeakEthicsResourcesIndexAbout the Authors

John Peel is a newspaper writer and editor, book author, and novelist, and has lived and hiked in Southwest Colorado since 1990. He has climbed more than half the state’s Fourteeners but these days gets as much of a thrill out of a good Thirteener. He lives with his wife, Judy, in Durango, Colorado. Paul Pixler was a retired professor of philosophy at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and a former chairman of the San Juan Chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club. He divided his time between Durango and southern Arizona and was an avid hiker.

• Preface to the Fifth EditionIntroductionGeneral InformationTechnologyHIKES IN AND NEAR DURANGOCity TrailsHogsbackPerins PeakDry Gulch to DurangoBarnroof PointColorado Trail: Junction to Gudy'sDry Fork-Hoffheins LoopAnimas City MountainLog ChutesRaider RidgeMeadow Loop-Telegraph TrailCarbon Junction TrailSale Barn-Cowboy LoopSkylineLA PLATA MOUNTAIN CLIMBSSliderock Trail to Kennebec PassTomahawk Basin-Diorite PeakCentennial Peak and SharkstoothHesperus MountainTransfer TrailMadden and Parrott PeaksGibbs PeakSilver MountainHIKES UP AND ON MISSIONARY RIDGEHaflin CreekStevens CreekMountain View CrestRed Creek-First ForkShearer CreekBurnt TimberHIKES BETWEEN DURANGO AND SILVERTONHermosa CreekJones CreekGoulding CreekChris ParkForebay LakeElbert Creek-Castle RockPurgatory FlatsCascade CreekPotato (Spud) LakePotato Hill (Spud Mountain)Engineer MountainGrizzly PeakGrayrock PeakHermosa PeakJura Knob (Coal Creek-Deer Creek)Crater Lake-North TwilightSnowdon PeakMolas TrailSultain-Grand TurkColorado Trail-Molas PassHIKES OUT OF SILVERTONHope LakeIce LakesUS Grant PeakColumbine TrailKendall MountainWhitehead PeakSilver LakeHematite BasinHighland Mary LakesContinental DivideVALLECITO AREA HIKESLake EileenVallecito CreekCave BasinPine RiverTHE AREA FOURTEENERSMount SneffelsHandies PeakRedcloud and Sunshine PeaksUncompahgre PeakWetterhorn PeakEthicsResourcesIndexAbout the Authors