This Is the Pikes Peak Story We’ll Tell at Every Party From Now On...It's FASCINATING

Podcast: Springs and Things: Your Insider's Guide to Colorado Springs Culture & Community · Colorado Springs Locals, Carly Ries and Lauren Ferrara

Opublikowano: 2026-11-03

For nearly a century, a handful of people have done something truly unhinged: pushed a peanut all the way up Pikes Peak using only their face. Today Carly and Lauren sit down with two guests: the reigning champ, Bob Salem, who crawled from the Barr Trail trailhead to the summit in a record seven days in 2022, plus Manitou Mike Maio, who knows every twist of this bizarre local legend. Why you need to hear this one: The origin story is a 1929 lost bet. A Texas man named Bill Williams lost $50 on the 1928 presidential election, then tried...