Castle Peak

Aptly named summit offers perfect views of the Elks; although the highest in the range this is one of the easiest... go mid-summer for some great glissading
Castle Peak was the first major peak of the spring for Ken and I. We had been planning on climbing Castle Peak early in the season so we could take advantage of the reputed long glissade from the saddle between Castle Peak and it's neighboring un-official fourteener, Conundrum Peak. This was to be my earliest spring ascent of a fourteener, but there was much less snow on this trips than on virtually all of my other trips that I had taken over Memorial Day, nearly one month away!