I'm spending the winter as caretaker at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab in Gothic, Colorado, outside of Crested Butte. Which is to say, skiing a lot. Wednesday's storm dropped two feet of heavy snow on a fragile snowpack, and then dropped temperatures to the minus 20-degree range. Thursday meant getting out to fight cabin fever while avoiding areas of high avalanche risk and not freezing to death. I ended up skiing upvalley along (approximately) the 401 trail past Avery Peak, then bushwhacking inelegantly through tight spruces and over deadfall to discover a distant meadow where I had lunch and hot tea and then schussed back to the road. A fine day sliding (well, slogging) in the mountains.





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Originally posted by elinck View PostI'm spending the winter as caretaker at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab in Gothic, Colorado, outside of Crested Butte.
p.s., looks like a fabulous place to spend the winter!
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