This report comes from my good friend and fellow F-111 driver Jim Roper ’68…
The Barr Trail winds through the splendor of Colorado’s Front Range like few others. I hike it not nearly as often as I would prefer, but today was the day. It travels 13 miles from Manitou Springs to the top of 14126’ Pikes Peak, where Katherine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful in 1893. (She actually travelled up there in a mule wagon.) I took a ton of great photos. One of the folks who zipped past me was Greg Birk ‘77, whom I met at BigBash07 while he was jogging with Max Servies. He lives in Houston. Also a Beta. So what are the odds?
