Friday 11:30a: leave denver. Travel for 4.5 painful hrs up cinnamon pass by lake city. Let me just say this--- if you own a motor home, please tow it with a vehicle that is capable of taking it thru the mountains at the speed limit. We are taking about going 65 in a 65, not 45. I was about ready to slit some tires.
4:00: park car, hop out and start packing in. We hit a nice spot at 12200 and camped.
Saturday 4:00a: wake up and climb in the light of the full moon. We hit redcloud and then got over to sunshine by sunrise. We left fairly quickly as I was freezing. I always forget how chilly it is up there in the fall (there were aspens sporting yellow leaves on our way up).
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| looking back at redcloud |
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| headed down |
8:00 return to camp and tear it down 10:00: arrive back at car. Decide what to do until we home handies tomorrow. Decide to hike handies today. Drive to trailhead.
10:30 start hiking
12:30 summit handies
2:00 back in car, begin driving home. eat at eddy line in Buena vista.
9:00 Arrive home
We got home and sat on the couches and couldn't believe we were only gone one day. Holy smokes!
Approx 6100 calls burned. :)
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| the view from our camping spot |
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| capturing the sunrise from sunshine |
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| 6:00a on the top of redcloud. frozen fingers don't operate iphones very well |
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| handies peak from afar (the one in the middle) |
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| atop handies. we tried to redcloud directly between us. sunshine to the left (somehow my phone flipped the picture.....sunshine really is to the south) |
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