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…
Trip Reports Backcountry
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Castle Peak East Face ski mountaineering trip report, Elk Mountains in Colorado have plenty of options.
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Climb and ski of Mount Boddington, The Ram Horn, Colorado mountain at head of Fryingpan drainage, Sawatch mountains.
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Skiing Savage Couloir and Savage Peak, Sawatch Mountains in Colorado, this is a very accessible ski tour that is highly recommended.
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Crested Butte newspaper is full of flood angst, yesterday we ski slush that never got the nightly firm-up. Then today we head out for Mineral Point and what do we get? Full on blizzard conditions. Abused the Nytro driving on…
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Had to deliver grandma Patricia (my mom) back to Crested Butte, so Louie and I loaded up our skis and the Nytro and headed over to the other side of the Elk Mountains. I’ve backcountry skied around Crested Butte quite…
