Too failed attempts: Nebraska & Kansas

I'm sad to report that we had our first two failed attempts. The day after summiting Mt. Elbert, we left Leadville, CO in a marathon quest to highpoint Nebraska and Kansas. The snow melt from the previous week's storm left muddy fields across the great plains. My little Honda Civic was not brave enough to swim through the mud.

Colorado's High Point

Here we are beginning our journey up to the highest point of Colorado, Mt. Elbert. It also is the highest point of the Rocky Mountains. The peak is the one above Becki's head. We have a long ways to go.
Here I am checking our progress on my trusty Garmin eTrex. Fortunately I uploaded our path into it since the trail at times became hard to follow with the fresh snow.
We've reached 10,920 feet and setup campsite for the night. It took us about 3 hours to get to this location from the car.

The summit at 14,433 feet. We had to use snowshoes on the entire climb above 10,000 feet. It took us 7 hours to reach the summit from our campsite. There were places where the snow was so fresh and soft that in places we sank down more than a foot even with our snowshoes on!
The view was awesome. This was Becki's first real mountain climb and our first winter ascent.