If you’ve been around western Colorado skiing for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of Rob Hunker. Starting out with the Crested Butte ski patrol in the 1970s, Rob was instrumental in the development of the Butte’s “extreme terrain,…
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Mt. Raoul,13,803 foot sub-peak of Castle Peak in the Elk Mountains southwest of Aspen, Colorado. Also named Castleabra or Castlebra.
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Gear list for the Silvretta Traverse, what to bring for Silvretta Mountains backcountry ski trip.
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Breakfast at the Heidelberg was typical of this region: coffee, tea, good bread, cold cuts, and cereal if meat wasn’t your thing. Today we head to the Jamtal Hut on the Silvretta Traverse. Thermos filling was done from the tea water tank. I mixed up a liter of Cytomax, kept my Rittersport chocolate at the top of my pack, and off we went on a well beaten skin track heading southerly to the high Alps.
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Can You Stand Any More Snow? We can. But lunch at the Cook Shack was good too.
by Lou Dawsonby Lou DawsonIndependence Pass this weekend was that big tasty lunch and a bunch of ski touring on wonderful corn snow.
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My pickup rumbles into Maroon Lake day parking at 3:35 AM, with Louie snoozing in the rear seat and me just barely awake with the help of alien stories on Coast to Coast radio. With a glance at the night…
