Colorado

There is no higher peak, if you were to fly east from here across the United States, across the Atlantic until Mont Blanc.  This peak was seen by the Stephen Long expedition of 1820 first on June 30 of that year and his name appears on it as early as 1825. Long would have seen the mountain from 9000 feet below its summit from...

Tomahawk Lake is up several miles from the main highway heading east from Paonia, Colorado. It's all uphill to the lake and not difficult, but beautiful.