Raspberry Mountain (The
Sleeping Giant)
"A longtime member of the Saturday Knights – a local
hiking group that celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2003 - Robert
Ormes established many of the hiking trails in the Pikes Peak
region and was vigilant about making sure the peaks he knew were
named properly.
'To the casual observer, all mountains tend to look the same,
but with a little practice they take on the individuality that lets
you know one from another,' he wrote in "Skylines of Colorado," a
series of books that features Ormes' ink drawings of mountain
profiles. . . . 'To know them gives you the joy of kinship with
them.'
Ormes scoured the region, exploring peaks to place on his
hand-drawn maps. His first Pikes Peak Atlas debuted in 1959, with
his own trails carefully marked and his personal take on some
mountains already named.
'Bob was always bothered by Raspberry Mountain,' says Robert
Houdek, who worked with Ormes for years and who drew the Atlas
beginning with the fifth revised edition in 1986. 'He'd say that
he'd been on that mountain, and had never, ever seen a raspberry.
Besides, there's already a Raspberry Mountain, by Mount
Herman.'
So Ormes called the non-Raspberry Mountain Sleeping Giant, and
Houdek complied until after Ormes' death. The official name is
Raspberry, so I used that name and put Sleeping Giant in
parentheses."
Deb Acord – Gazette, August 22, 2003.
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Additional Waypoints
AP2FAM8 - Alternate Parking
N 38° 53.429 W 105° 08.661
PK2FAM8 - Suggested Parking
N 38° 52.837 W 105° 07.514
Take the RTP trail from this parking area.
RP2FAM8 - Leave RTP trail
N 38° 53.879 W 105° 07.356
Leave the RTP trail here if you are starting at the suggested parking.
The Sleeping Giant's Adam's Apple
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