On the Sunday after Crankworx last weekend, Kevin, myself and Abby decided to go on a hike, starting on Berthoud Pass, finishing in Winter Park — a super knar shuttle run. It was a pretty nice day, but the clouds were moving in fast and we were all glad to be in a car by the time the rain came around 2 or so. It was so gorgeous up above treeline in the Vasquez Wilderness. The only bummer, from my perspective, is that this beautiful place can never be enjoyed on a mountain bike. While mountain bikers are low-impact trail users, scientifically shown to have a similar environmental impact as hikers, they are unfairly excluded from all Wilderness areas. It's really important to protect our land for future generations, but there are other ways to do it besides Wilderness designation.
Anyways... the hike was wicked sweet. We saw some ptarmigans, a guy skiing one of the snowfields (I was jealous), found some sweet stuff on the ski hill and totally blew out the legs hiking down Mary Jane to get back. An awesome day in the mountains, capped off by some sweet, sweet ice cream at the Dairy King in Empire.
Still a bit snowy up around 10,000 feet.
For all the photos visit the links below:
Album 1
Album 2
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