As crazy as it might sound, I had never hiked to the top of Pinnacle Mountain until recently.  I'm only about an hour away from this beautiful spot, but this was my first visit. Let me preface this by saying that I was a little over-confident!  I run a decent pace for a mile and run for about 5 miles.  The hike up Pinnacle is only about 1.5 miles round trip.  Well, add on top of that about 20 pounds of photography gear, a tripod, and a constant vertical incline and you end up with a very humbled Todd!