Pikes Peak is in central Colorado and is considered the "Gateway to the Rockies". The Northern Ute Indians believed that their people ascended from the mountain and consider it sacred. In the picture you can see where the treeline stops, (about 11,500 feet). Pikes Peak is 14, 115 ft, the third highest in the state. You are looking at the Northwest slope of the peak, a picture taken in Woodland Park, Colorado. We live on the Northwest slope at the 9000 ft level. It is truly one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. The tall ponderosa pines combined with the worn trails from so many feet passing it's surface is truly magical to me. The prayer trees along the routes are bent and aged with worn spots on them from ancient hands praying at it's side as they traveled on foot to "Tava" in order to worship the ancients. I have lived in Europe, Asia, Central America and several states in the United States and have never felt the love that I feel from this land.
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