Day V:  I woke up in the hammock ultra early at about 5:30 am totally energized and ready to roll.  Something about sleeping outside, esp in my hammock between 2 trees just really invigorates my soul.  I had a great breakfast consisting of eggs and toast & jam, and packed up the hammock before the wind blew it into the lake.  Much to my pleasant suprise I had camped out right next to the Switchgrass Trail trailhead.  Once again the singletrack in Kansas really impressed me.  Lake Wilson had a great trail system that was 13.5 miles long and had a little bit of everything: big rock formations, silky smooth singletrack, Womblesque exposure, fast decents, nice little climbs and even some riding along the bluffs of the lake.  Oh yeah, huge wind gusts too; at one point I was riding on top of a hill and 30+ mph winds blew up and nearly knowcked me over.  I had to lean into the wind to keep from running off the trail and falling over.  After a great ride I had the privelidge of meeting the creator of the trail system, Switchgrass Bob, who was a super nice guy and a superb trail builder.  After leaving Lake Wilson I headed for the great state of Colorado.  It was a long drive to get there but well worth it as I rolled upon the mountains just West of Colorado Springs.  I made a beeline right through the city of Colorado Springs and headed for the Garden of the Gods as dawn crept up on the horizen.  The rock formations at Garden of the Gods were awesome.  They were like giant red hardened flowers sprouting from the Earth and towering over the landscape like watchmen at the gate.  My newly acquired rock climbing skills came in very handy as I proceeded to boulder and climb everything I could touch.  Nathan, Vanna, Kevin, Pete, Chris and everyone else from the LR Climbing Gym would have been proud.  At one point I even got myself into a sticky situation a couple of hundred feet off the ground where I was thinking "Oh God, please just get me down."  Fortunately I got myself back down to the shelf below and felt safe again.  Later I found out that I was climbing in an off limits area where people have fallen, gotten hurt very badly and even died.  I was using my climbing shoes at the time and accidentally left one of my sandals about a 100 ft up on one of the rock formations.  I didn't realize this until I was back on the road and it was dark so I decided to come back and get it another day.  That night I wheeled into the parking lot for the Barr Trail which leads 13.5 miles up to the summit of Pike's Peak.  I started hiking into the forest to pitch my hammock and I saw some jovial figures with glowsticks on their camelbacks heading up the mountain towards me.  I quickly went down and introduced myself and made quick friends with the Colorado Springs 4.  They led me up the Incline Trail which is an old abandoned railroad that leads straight up the side of the mountain via 2800 tightly spaced railroad ties which serve as the ultimate "Stairway to Heaven".  It took us 45 min to climb up to the top, but the view of the lights over Colorado Springs was incredible.  After hanging at the top of the trail for awhile I took advantage of the hypoxia (lack of O2) we were all suffering from and performed a little glowstick lightshow for my new friends.  They were impressed and left me a pair to scare off any bears that might want to come by and visit in the middle of the night.  I found 2 large trees and set up the hammock and quickly dozed off into a wonderful Colorado mountain deep sleep.