Ouray, CO - 08.14.10 - 08.16.10
Vermilion Peak | Mt. Sneffels
Packed up
Perfect fit
Sunrise in PhX
Flagstaff
Monument Valley
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At the Ice Lake Basin Trailhead
On the trail
Jeez this pack is heavy
Waterfall early on the trail
Approaching the basin
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Lower Ice Lake Basin
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Looks like a reasonable place to put a tent
Setting up camp
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Dinner
Elk Carpaccio
Salmon
View from the dinner table
Relaxing
Morning in Lower Ice Lake Basin
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Sunrise
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Upper Ice Lake Basin
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Ice Lake
Pilot Knob
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Golden Horn
Vermilion Peak
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Old structure above Fuller Lake
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Traversing the talus
Picking a route
Looking up to the col between Fuller and Vermilion
More talus... SHEESH
Looking back down at the route we should have taken
Golden Horn from just below the col
The other side
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Headed up from the col
Gully just below the summit
Steep and loose
Golden Horn ridge from Vermilion
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Cooling my feet
Taking a moment
Panorama from the top
Back down the gully
GET A GRIP
Gully on the other side
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Looking back up the talus
Catch you next time Golden Horn
Glance back at Vermilion
Ulysses S Grant Peak
We caped below USG and Island Lake
Feelin fine
Ice Lake Panorama
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Start of the High Clearance Short Wheelbase 4X4 road
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Gilpin Peak
More talus
SH-T
Headed to Sneffels
TALUSTALUSTALUSTALUS
Working talus with a bum achilles is no fun
Southwest ridge route
Looking up to the col
Looking down from the col - clouds starting to close in
View up the gully
Closing in
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Steep and loose... again...
Glad no one was above me
View from the top of the gully
This was less fun coming down in the rain
Notch at the top - bit of exposure to the left
The left
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Top. Thunder n rain after this scurried down like a wet ferret
Sneffels from Dallas Divide. Pics not too bad considering...
... I had the hammer down to stay ahead of the rain again...
Other side of Pilot Knob, Golden Horn n Vermilion
AZ sunset