Trek for Life 2022

The 4th Annual Trek for Life saw a cold morning in Snowmass with every type of weather along the way — warm, cold, rain, sleet, and snow — but our spirits never dampened.

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Sunrise in Snowmass illumniating the bottom side of the scttered clouds. It was a bit chilly.
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The sun just touching the top of the mountains behind Maroon Lake at the start of the 4th Annual Tre…
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Just past Marron Lake is the first steep assent for about a mile or so. The rocky trail taking us th…
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Below Crater lake the trail starts giving us peaks through the pine at the mountain tops ahead of us…
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Picking our way across a scree washout.
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The trail begins to take us through a mixture of pine trees and open areas of willow.
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and the view of Maroon Bells bathed in a bit moree sunlight. We can feel the air getting a little wa…
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The view back down the valley behind us, that we just hiked up through.
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Simply beautiful. As much as I'm focused on getting to the pass, I also want to take my time and lin…
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At this point we start getting above the tree line and begin to hike through dense willow, cross str…
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. . . and the upper portion of the valley just below the pass opens up and begins to reveal itself.
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Looking across the upper valley at the mountain range between Pyramid Peak and Precarious Peak and s…
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As we leave the trees and willow behind the trail begins to steepen and the effects of the higher al…
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Stunning. This is the original untouched photo (#nofilter) looking across the upper valley just belo…
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The view of the valley behind us just below the pass. As we leave the scrub behind, the last mile or…
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During the entire morning, the weather changed from cold to warm and back a couple of times as the s…
A short panoramic video of the basin just below the pass, looking back down the trail we're hiking u…
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The 6 of us at the top of West Maroon Pass looking back towards Snowmass. The hike from the Snowmass…
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What goes up must come down! A great view of the steepness of the trail just below the pass on the C…
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The Maroon Bells in Colorado are made up of soft red shale and a paler siltstone called the "Maroon …
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Going down is so much easier in some ways. About a mile or so below the pass we're back in the scrub…
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The view down the alpine valley towards Schofield Park, the trailhead on the Crested Butte side of t…
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Not sure what this is but the vegetation and wildflowers weren't as colorful this year. Maybe it was…
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Most of the creeks were dry this year and easy to cross.
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