View of Pike's Peak

Friday night we ate at the Swiss Chalet restaurant near Colorado Springs. It had a beautiful view of Pike's Peak, which still has snow on the top. They were preparing for this weekend's road race, the Race to the Clouds, so we could see faint headlights up on the peak as cars made their way back down the mountain, going through the 162 hairpin curves. There is another way to get to the top of Pike's Peak - a cog railway, however, Pike's Peak is 14,000 feet and a bit too high for me, since I'm carrying the Curtain Climber. Several people who are here on this work-related trip for me went earlier in the week and most of them were affected physically by the altitude, and all of them advised me to sit that one out.