Colorado 10th Mountain Hut Trip

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The trailhead and start of a 3 day adventure in the Colorado mountains.

 It was about a 4.5 mile slog up to the cabin, we gained 1200 feet of vertical. The cabin sits at 11,200 feet.

 A snack break along the trail, with 13,000 homestead peak in the background.

 The tree of the day...

 I popped over the ridge and the cabin was in view. The surrounding mountains range from 12,000 to over 13,000 feet.

 Ted arriving at the destination.

Day 2 @ the Hut

Steve, Dan, Ted and I are all geared up and ready for a hike up to the top of the ridge. Followed by snowboarding and skiing down.

Traversing across the mountain and gaining elevation...

Dan doing the the kick turn up the traverse.

Steve skinning above along the 12,000 foot ridge, just blue sky above.

Ted and I arriving up top. The views are amazing.

Snowshoing, snowboarding,or snowmobiling, reaching the top of a mountain is the moment of appreciating ones surroundings.     

Steve removing his ski skins for the ski down.

Skiing off the top.

After a snowboard down, we hiked back up and I savored the views and hiked further up the ridgeline. Evidence of a natural avalanche was on the north facing ridge.

The picture below is of Homestead Peak, over 13,000 feet across the huge bowl. I could see the snow blowing off the far ridge.   

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