11/4/11 Stratton CO to Pueblo West CO

We left Stratton, CO for the last leg of our trip to Pueblo West, CO. We past through a winter wonderland as the ground in many places was sprinkled with snow. Just enough to make it pretty but not enough to make driving difficult.

About 100 miles east of Denver, Colorado
About 55 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado with snow clad Pikes Peak.
About 50 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado
About 50 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado
About 40 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado with snow clad Pikes Peak
About 35 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado
About 35 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado
About 30 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado with snow clad Pikes Peak.

Pikes Peak (originally Pike's Peak) is a mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, 10 miles west of Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County.

Originally called "El Capitan" by Spanish settlers, the mountain was renamed Pike's Peak after Zebulon Pike Jr., an explorer who led an expedition to the southern Colorado area in 1806. At 14,115 feet it is one of Colorado's 54 fourteeners (mountains that rise more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level). Pikes Peak rises over 8,000 feet above the city of Colorado Springs, and is a designated National Historic Landmark.