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Thousand foot drops, perfect for flight suites, veer off to pristine alpine lakes below me and the nearby ski areas of Telluride and Silverton are easy to spot..

Are any of you local?

Denver

And take in this beautiful blue bird day.

And take in this beautiful blue bird day.

Button

So they both look to me,

The couple replies,

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We’re from Kansas

Mind if you take our picture?

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This is our first 14er!

fifteen

an

As long as you take mine.

Like an ocean

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II. I Summit.

The other woman scowls.

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?

Yea, I grew in the foothills but live in Cali at the moment.

Another woman there answers,

I grin

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Evergreen

Five minutes later I have the entire summit to myself.

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DaynNite

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Waking fifteen minutes later to watch Birds of Prey surf the winds, circling for chirping pikas.

ocean

The woman shakes her head, but I nod,

You know the way down?

I say,

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Waking

Sure!

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Well according to the Navy Seals, never go the same way you came...

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minutes

But I continue unabated,

I recommend taking a nap up here too, especially on a day like today…Just Zen out.

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Like

Where ya’ll from?

So I take one,

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Named after the Nordic god of snow, Mt. Sneffels is the Monarch of the San Juan range. Ruling over the most remote and jagged mountain kingdom in Southwest Colorado. Known as the ‘Switzerland of America.’

things

suddenly

Then I follow my own advice, taking a different route then the way I came, practically skipping down a narrowing sawtooth ridge.

sketchy -

But

get

There's no clear path and I have to rockclimb down.

Left

Right

GO

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Ahhhh!!!!

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Go Left

So as not to disturb the scree and get crushed by its rockslide. Constantly repeating, I was born in it and use the encyclopedic memories from childhood to make up for my cavalier decent.

A voice I cannot explain tells me:

But at this point I’m quite crazy. Hopped up on adrenalin and overflowing with altitude confidence, I run/hop from boulder to boulder, like a sure-footed mountain goat, before I tire.

With my face to the rock walls for a good forty minutes, I arrive to a snow field and use my sneakers as skis and hands as polls to avoid more loose rocks and shred the last thousand feet of danger. Emerging close to a trail.

Before getting to one of the sapphire alpine lakes I spotted from above. Strip to my boxers and dive into the freezing water. Submerging my head to open my eyes and behold the most magical dragon blue I’ve ever seen. I breath in and howl, “Aaooo AHHOOOO!” Before hobbling the last three miles, shivering just a pinch, and get back to my car…

AHHOOOO!” HOOOOOO!!!!

Submerging my head to open my eyes and behold the most magical dragon blue I’ve ever seen.

I breath in and howl,

And

gravity

take

I strip to my boxers and dive into the freezing water;

I breath in and howl:

But suddenly things get sketchy – there’s no clear path and I have to rock climb down. EndFragment

Before hobbling the last three miles, shivering just a pinch, and get back to my car…

In concert with all the water gushing from both subterrain Mountain channels below and the snowfields above to collect into the calm sapphire lake.

down.

me

let

GO

hand

No.

Emerging close to a trail..

I run / hop from boulder to boulder,

I’m just a product.

step

I say.

Gracefully descending.

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Hopped up on adrenalin and overflowing with altitude confidence.

Have you seen my freind?

Reaching a path.

Forty minutes later, I arrive to a snowfield and use my sneakers as skis and hands for polls to avoid more loose rocks and shred the last thousand feet of danger -

He desperately asks me,

Step

like a sure-footed mountain goat before I tire,

Hand

This isn’t how you’re supposed to use me!

So with it I go.

by

A minute later I ascend the close horizon

It’s comparable flatness feels good under my feet,

Have you seen my freind?

So as not to disturb the scree and get crushed by its rockslide.

Light-food ballerina grace.

over

Yo…

But at this point I’m quite crazy. .

He’s a worried man with hiking poles – maybe 45, trying to move with pace. Yet his light-weight aluminum polls clank uselessly on the granite as if to complain,

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