I prepare

Today: hike up Green Mountain to make sure that Higgs and I can do a fourteener on Saturday.

So I've been way slacking on hiking this year, mostly doing stuff out here on the plains instead of in the mountains. Now my friend Sinclair wants to go up Mt. Bierstadt, the easiest fourteener in Colorado, on Saturday. It's the easiest because the trailhead is at 12000 ft (nice!), and the approach is crazy shallow until the very top, but there will be very little air. Green mountain is in town and it's been a favorite over the last couple of years. The hike up is roughly the same elevation change and distance but 4000 ft lower, so hopefully we can still do it at a solid pace.