Started hiking from 11,100 feet. My climbing partner is 73 years old so we were not moving very fast and summited Castle around 2:30 pm on a very clear day. I talked him out of doing Conundrum because we wouldn’t get back to camp until dark. This is a real slog and my least favorite Fourteener in Colorado out of the 10 I have climbed since 2014. Do not hike this alone because there are dangerous and loose sections of this route and getting off route could be fatal. The final summit ridge was nice, but the hike up the ugly road was not. The final 2 miles of road os serious 4x4 work.