Playing In The Park
Weekend means playing in the Park! Hikes we’ve done many times, just never get old. Short on words, big on snow. I wish…
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Triangle Mountain New Years Day
Triangle Mountain sits right out the back door (0.88 miles as the crow flies), and has been really low on the list for…
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Snow Blast at The Loch
We haven’t been up to The Loch (Loch Vale) since last winter, and we weren’t sure what to expect once we got into…
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Montezuma Basin Winter
Montezuma Basin is an alpine basin located in the Elk Range of the Rocky Mountains outside Aspen Colorado. This post was supposed to…
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Humboldt Peak – Colorado 14er
Humboldt Peak under the belt, number 40 on the way to number 58. Since Greg did Humboldt in years past and this was…
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Rainbow Lakes Hike
Rainbow Lakes is one of the more popular hikes in the Indian Peaks Wilderness due to easy access and being a short, easy…
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Caribou Ranch Open Space
While we were waiting for Shelby and Tom to show up at our campsite outside Nederland we decided to go and check out…
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Uncompahgre Peak – Colorado 14er
Uncompahgre Peak is the 6th highest peak in Colorado at 14,321 feet, the highest peak in the San Juan mountain range, and the…
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Wetterhorn Peak – Colorado 14er
Wetterhorn Peak is barely a 14er at 14,021 feet, but since it’s on the list, it must be done! The peak gets its…
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Mount Sneffels – Colorado 14er
Greg and I return to Southwest Colorado for another 14er weekend, with Mount Sneffels first on the list. Rising to 14,155 feet just…
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Mount Wilson – Colorado 14er
Mount Wilson – the 16th highest peak in Colorado at 14,256 feet. Just one of the three Wilson Group 14ers that we had…
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Sunlight Peak and Windom Peak – Colorado 14ers
Sunlight Peak and Windom Peak – 14ers 34 and 35 to round out our Chicago Basin trip. We were both looking forward to…
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Mount Eolus and North Eolus – Colorado 14ers
Mount Eolus and North Eolus – Colorado 14ers number 32 and 33 done. An oh-dark-thirty start out of our campsite in the Chicago…
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Camping in Chicago Basin
Chicago Basin is an amazing place, made just a little bit more amazing by what a pain it is to get there. Either…
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San Luis Peak – Colorado 14er
San Luis Peak – 14er number 31 in the books. This 14er isn’t convenient to get to from either direction – northeast off…
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Three Lakes Hike
The Three Lakes Hike was in our overall Crested Butte map, but we didn’t think we’d hit it due to its location way…
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Mount Emmons via Scarp Ridge
Mount Emmons sits very prominently outside Crested Butte, and was one of my two must-do hikes while we’re here. The other hike is…
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Green Lake via the Carbon Trail
Hiking up Green Lake via the Carbon Trail is a big disappointment unless you’re looking for some exercise. Lucky for us, that’s all…
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Devils Punch Bowl and Crystal Mill
The Crystal Mill is one of the most photographed structures in Colorado, and has been on our go-see-do list for over a decade…
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Canyon Rim Trail Hike
Part of the reason we wanted to stay in the campground closest to the Red Canyon Visitor Center in the Flaming Gorge National…
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Blue Heart Springs
Blue Heart Springs has been on our list ever since we saw a Youtube video from some young Instafluencers and were amazed that…
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