K2 and Capitol Peak (“The King”)
Author: Rick CrandallOn: Jul 15Categories: Climb Stories, Climbing Colorado Fourteeners, Mountain Climbs, My Favorite 14er Climb Stories, New Articles, Rick Crandall
Capitol Peak is undoubtedly the standard bearer of all the fourteeners in Colorado. It features a very long boulder hike/climb to a sub-summit called K2 at 13,688’ followed by a knife-edge ridge crawl to the Capitol summit cap. The final push is a 550’...