Capitol Peak is a 15.1 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Snowmass Village, Colorado that features a lake and is only recommended for very experienced adventurers. The trail is primarily used for hiking, rock climbing, and backpacking and is …

Among the most beautiful of the Colorado 14ers, Capitol Peak owes its shapely lines, faces and ridges to glacial chiseling and smoothing. While the Maroon Bells and Pyramid Peak are roadside attractions and photographed often from a roadside overlook, spectacular Capitol Peak …

The creek trail has long been the standard way to approach Capitol, but the ditch trail has become more popular because it avoids the elevation loss and regain required on the creek trail. This route description uses the ditch trail which makes the hike to Capitol Lake 6 miles in length.

Incredible climb and absolutely gorgeous summit views! Highly recommend backpacking in to Capitol Lake, which is stunning in its own right. We just stayed the one night, but I wish it were two. Most of the rock was reassuringly solid, still checked every hold and opted to stay ridge direct for a lot of the route after going up and over K2.

Capitol Peak is notorious among the Colorado fourteeners for being the most difficult of the fifty-eight peaks to ascend. The challenges on this mountain abound. There’s a long, 8.5 mile approach hike requiring backpacking skills. The rock is …

Capitol Peak is one of the most difficult fourteeners in Colorado and has an elevation of 14,131 feet. It requires 5,032 feet of elevation gain on an out-and-back trail that is 15.9 miles. The mountain can be completed as either an overnight backpacking trip or in a one-day push.

Capitol Lake is located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area of the White River National Forest near Aspen, Colorado. Sitting in a basin at the northern base of Capitol Peak (14,131 ft.) the lake is among the most scenic alpine lakes in the State of Colorado.

Sep 12, 2018 · Capitol Peak is infamous in Colorado as being the toughest standard route on a “14er” by most of the hiking community. This long hike involves miles of hiking and is usually broken up into 2 days.

Capitol Peak is regarded as one of the most difficult and deadliest peaks over 14,000 feet in Colorado – and one of the most spectacular. It rises to 14,130 feet from the Maroon Bells Wilderness Area of the Elk Mountains, and it offers some of the best alpine rock climbing in …

Capitol Peak is a 14,130 foot mountain in the Elk Range of Colorado most well known for its difficult and dangerous ridge and knife edge of class 4 hiking. Below we will cover each of the trail options, information about camping, roads, trail maps …