Pikes Peak: Look at that!

From: The Kansas City Star (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | Date: July 10, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Allen Holder

MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. _ Quiz time: What's the most popular thing for visitors to do atop Pikes Peak?

A) Play in the snow that's ever-present at 14,110 feet above sea level.

B) Gaze down upon the view that inspired Katherine Lee Bates to write the words to "America the Beautiful" in 1893.

C) Eat a doughnut.

If you answered anything but C, you obviously weren't on the train I rode on a mid-May morning that...

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