Hagues Peak, Mountain summit in Larimer County, United States.
Hagues Peak is the highest summit in the Mummy Range, a ridge within Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado. It sits in the northern section of the park and is reached by a long trail that passes through conifer forest, skirts alpine lakes, and then crosses open ground above the tree line.
The area was used by Ute and Arapaho peoples long before European settlers arrived in the Colorado mountains during the 19th century. When Rocky Mountain National Park was established in 1915, this part of the range came under federal protection, shifting the land from open settlement to managed public use.
Hagues Peak appears on Colorado's Centennial peaks list, a collection of summits above 13,000 feet (about 3,960 m) that many hikers work through as a personal goal. On the trail, it is common to meet groups ticking off peaks from this list one by one.
The hike to the summit is long and physically demanding, with much of the upper route crossing exposed terrain above the tree line. Starting early in the morning helps avoid afternoon thunderstorms, which are common at this elevation during summer.
The route to the summit passes Lawn Lake, which was reshaped in 1982 when an outlet pipe failed and sent a wall of water down the Roaring River valley. The flood left behind a large alluvial fan near the town of Estes Park that is still visible today.
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