DENVER (AP) — Hikers who climbed a Colorado mountain got more than just a sweeping view at the top. A man in an ice cream cone costume was unexpectedly handing out frozen treats.

No one seemed to know the man who carried ice cream sandwiches and bars and dry ice in a 60-pound (27-kilogram) pack up Huron Peak over the Labor Day weekend. But word of him spread quickly to hikers still making their way up the more than 14,000-foot (4,267-meter) mountain that's one of Colorado's tallest.

Blaine and Katie Griffin were about three-quarters of the way up Huron Peak when other hikers told them about the man. They worried he would run out of ice cream by the time they got there.

“Eventually, we got up to the top of the mountain and, tired, hot, thirsty and didn't know it, but ice cream was just k

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