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kindkesey
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here i come... I'm planing a trip out to Crested Butte in mid july for the Wildfower Festival. I'm thinkin i'd like to get a few more fourteen footers under my belt, anyone have any sudgestions?
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Well seeing i had no imput from any shroomates, i've decided to to head to Snowmass Wilderness Area after a week in Crested Butte to climb Castle Peak for and warm up and then tackel the hardsest fourteen in CO, the Maroon Bells!!
Two more weeks... i can't wait!!
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the contents of my backpack....

one more week of hiking around Crested Butte and i'll be heading to Snowmass Wilderness Area to tackel the maroon bells....
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13600 Purple Peak

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Heres some pics i took of the wildflowers this week!!









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Nice pics. I'm jealous. Life is always better above 10,000 feet IMO! I don't ever remember having a bad time at high altitudes.
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Quote:
kindkesey said: 13600 Purple Peak

Grasses at over 13,000?! Man , everywhere I go around here there is nothing above about 12,000! Rocks and dirt is all you will see.
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[b Grasses at over 13,000?! Man , everywhere I go around here there is nothing above about 12,000! Rocks and dirt is all you will see.
after you said that i had to pull out my topo and double check the elevation and Purple Peak is only 12820 not 13000, the next summit over is Mt Owen at 13000+!! After tree line it was all lose rock but at the summit there was a little patch of grass and some wildflowers? Heres a pic looking down from the summit.

Today i managed to make another high summit, this one was Crested Butte at 12162. No grass.... nothing but rock on this one!



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Well Damm.... i failed to summit the Maroon Bells! I backpacked to the the climbers trail on the south ridge of the bells and set up camp for the night. I awoke at 3am and headed up the trail in the dark and somehow(stoned) lost the trail and kept climbing until daylight. When i relized and saw the trail on the other side of a impassable ridge, it was to late to climb back down and start over. I decided to keep climbing and enjoy the moment instead of gettin pissed!

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Damn that sucks.. but at least you got out there and had a good time.. that's all that really matter 
Awesome pics
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Well i'm not done with the bells just yet, I'm heading out next monday to try again!
Anyone care to join me?
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