West of Denver on the mostly 2-lane highway 285, a short ways before the iconic Kenosha Pass, there’s a jagged dirt road up to the trailhead for Gibson Lake. This was meant to be an easy hike for us: relatively low mileage and good scenery. However, we hadn’t accounted for the amount of smoke in […]
Read more "This Was Supposed To Be A Martini"I needed an escape: a recess from the existential gloom that is living through this pandemic. Ty unfortunately could not join for this escapade, he has been hard at work helping to run time-sensitive COVID-19 diagnostic tests for CU Boulder through his lab research gig. Godspeed, Ty! Lurking just beneath the jagged precipices of the […]
Read more "Hot Take on Lonesome Lake"It was at the end of last year that the Overcast Adventurers and company donned their heaviest winter coats and set off to Rocky Mountain National Park to snowshoe up to a couple of frozen alpine and subalpine lakes. Back then, the crowds were thin, the air was brisk, and the landscape was an icebox […]
Read more "Through the Looking Glass"On August 30th we (Tyler, Skyler, and Tshering) hiked Wetterhorn Peak. It wasn’t the conventional route, but perhaps a more exciting one. We left from Gunnison, CO at about 3:30 AM. The drive up to Lake City, and up Engineer Pass, was clear. We parked at the fork for the Henson Creek Road. It’s possible […]
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