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Sawatch Range, Colorado · 39.1178° N · 106.4454° W
Mt. Elbert
Headlamps on before sunrise, a ptarmigan halfway up, and a cardboard sign on the highest point in Colorado.
Rough draft: the full story is still being written.
Mt. Elbert is the highest peak in Colorado and the tallest in the Rockies. It’s a fourteener with a long, steady trail and a whole lot of thin air at the top.
Alpine start
What time did the alarm go off? Which trail did you take? Who was with you?
Halfway up
Logged a White-tailed Ptarmigan “halfway up Elbert,” a bird that lives above treeline year-round and is almost impossible to spot until it moves. How did you find it?
The summit
Write about the top: the view, the wind, the sign, and how your legs felt on the way down.
The film
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