The Snow is in Steamboat!
Photo by John F. Russell, published in the Steamboat Pilot and Today.
Though the Front Range continues to struggle with moderate to low snow depth, the Steamboat area is doing great! Snowfall totals for December is 66.9 inches, the sixth highest recorded.
Though Steamboat is well-known for its downhill ski resort, remember that it is surrounded by vast tracts of stunningly beautiful wilderness that sees very few visitors, only about two and a half hours from the west side of Denver, assuming you avoid the I-70 jam-ups, that is…
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Colorado man among two mountaineers killed on Argentina climb – The Denver Post
Summit of Aconcagua on a relatively mild day, December 24th, 1991.
Aconcagua is technically very easy by its popular routes, the normal route is like hiking Mt. Bierstadt. But at nearly 23,000 feet high, the extreme altitude and weather produce a regular death toll even to very experienced climbers:
Colorado man among two mountaineers killed on Argentina climb – The Denver Post.
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