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.

Preface to the Fifth Edition

Introduction

General Information

Technology

HIKES IN AND NEAR DURANGO

City Trails

Hogsback

Perins Peak

Dry Gulch to Durango

Barnroof Point

Colorado Trail: Junction to Gudy's

Dry Fork-Hoffheins Loop

Animas City Mountain

Log Chutes

Raider Ridge

Meadow Loop-Telegraph Trail

Carbon Junction Trail

Sale Barn-Cowboy Loop

Skyline

LA PLATA MOUNTAIN CLIMBS

Sliderock Trail to Kennebec Pass

Tomahawk Basin-Diorite Peak

Centennial Peak and Sharkstooth

Hesperus Mountain

Transfer Trail

Madden and Parrott Peaks

Gibbs Peak

Silver Mountain

HIKES UP AND ON MISSIONARY RIDGE

Haflin Creek

Stevens Creek

Mountain View Crest

Red Creek-First Fork

Shearer Creek

Burnt Timber

HIKES BETWEEN DURANGO AND SILVERTON

Hermosa Creek

Jones Creek

Goulding Creek

Chris Park

Forebay Lake

Elbert Creek-Castle Rock

Purgatory Flats

Cascade Creek

Potato (Spud) Lake

Potato Hill (Spud Mountain)

Engineer Mountain

Grizzly Peak

Grayrock Peak

Hermosa Peak

Jura Knob (Coal Creek-Deer Creek)

Crater Lake-North Twilight

Snowdon Peak

Molas Trail

Sultain-Grand Turk

Colorado Trail-Molas Pass

HIKES OUT OF SILVERTON

Hope Lake

Ice Lakes

US Grant Peak

Columbine Trail

Kendall Mountain

Whitehead Peak

Silver Lake

Hematite Basin

Highland Mary Lakes

Continental Divide

VALLECITO AREA HIKES

Lake Eileen

Vallecito Creek

Cave Basin

Pine River

THE AREA FOURTEENERS

Mount Sneffels

Handies Peak

Redcloud and Sunshine Peaks

Uncompahgre Peak

Wetterhorn Peak

Ethics

Resources

Index

About the Authors