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Nice trip to CO. 2 days in Boulder. 4 camping nights total; 2 car camp 2 backpacking in Collegiate Peaks National Forest.

URL below for our fourteener climb (Mount Yale; Elevation 14,196).
< http://www.summitpost.org/show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/311 >
First day in high mountains near Buena Vista
First day in high mountains near Buena Vista		 Cooking dinner
Cooking dinner		 Tent site
Tent site		 Aspen trees on road
Aspen trees on road
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P1010018.JPG		 Aspen trees on road
Aspen trees on road		 Rental rig
Rental rig		 Cottonwood Lake
Cottonwood Lake
Cottonwood Lake
Cottonwood Lake		 Packing for backpacking trip
Packing for backpacking trip		 Denny Creek. Lots of climbig ahead.
Denny Creek. Lots of climbig ahead.		 Collegiate Peaks sign.
Collegiate Peaks sign.
Resting.
Resting.		 Ultimate goal. Mount Yale. Elevation 14,196
Ultimate goal. Mount Yale. Elevation 14,196		 Base camp.
Base camp.		 Meadow at base camp.
Meadow at base camp.
Coors: Rocky Mountain spring water
Coors: Rocky Mountain spring water		 Warm day
Warm day		 Taking cover from the afternoon showers
Taking cover from the afternoon showers		 Base camp.
Base camp.
Dinner with eveneing rain showers
Dinner with eveneing rain showers		 Summit Packs at base camp before climb
Summit Packs at base camp before climb		 Tea before summit climb
Tea before summit climb		 Scenery on the climb
Scenery on the climb
Scenery on the climb
Scenery on the climb		 Scenery on the climb
Scenery on the climb		 Marmot
Marmot		 Scenery on the climb
Scenery on the climb
Looking down at our assent.
Looking down at our assent.		 Hard climbing
Hard climbing		 Summit bid
Summit bid		 Summit
Summit
Summit
Summit		 Summit
Summit		 Summit views
Summit views		 Summit views
Summit views
Alpine wild flowers
Alpine wild flowers		 Alpine wild flowers
Alpine wild flowers		 Alpine wild flowers
Alpine wild flowers		 Alpine wild flowers
Alpine wild flowers
Alpine wild flowers
Alpine wild flowers		 Looking up at Mount Yale
Looking up at Mount Yale		 Looking up at Mount Yale
Looking up at Mount Yale		 Stretch
Stretch
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P1010082.JPG		 Base camp meadow
Base camp meadow		 Self portrait
Self portrait
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P1010089.JPG		 Mount Yale. Day after our climb it snowed up there.
Mount Yale. Day after our climb it snowed up there.		 Heading out
Heading out		 Heading out
Heading out
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P1010097.JPG		 Leaving base camp; going down.
Leaving base camp; going down.		 Heading down.
Heading down.		 Log creek crossing
Log creek crossing
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P1010101.JPG		 Princeton hot spring. Upper pool
Princeton hot spring. Upper pool		 Last night
Last night		 P1010104.JPG
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Last night
Last night		 Colorado trail
Colorado trail		 Last night
Last night		 Flowers and ping cones
Flowers and ping cones
CO. trail
CO. trail		 Eldorado Canyon hike with Jim P.
:: Eldorado Canyon hike with Jim P. ::

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Ashley Hockenberry15-Apr-2006 03:55
Great gallery

Ashley
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