Indian Peaks – PMags.com https://pmags.com Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:38:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pmags.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-fav-ico-160x160.jpg Indian Peaks – PMags.com https://pmags.com 32 32 81463906 Pawnee – Buchanan : Off-trail option https://pmags.com/pawnee-buchanan-off-trail-option https://pmags.com/pawnee-buchanan-off-trail-option#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2016 01:50:12 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=11826 Pawnee – Buchanan : Off-trail option

An off-trail  twist on a classic Colorado backpacking loop. Read More ...

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Some favorite backpacking loops in the Denver - Boulder area of Colorado. Read More ...

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]]> https://pmags.com/backpacking-loops-mags-favorites/feed 136 513 Sourdough Trail Ski Traverse https://pmags.com/sourdough-trail-ski-traverse https://pmags.com/sourdough-trail-ski-traverse#respond Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:28:30 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=2383 Sourdough Trail Ski Traverse

The Sourdough Trail is ~15 miles of classic Nordic ski tour terrain.

A steepish climb of about 1500' elevation gain, then almost all downhill to Peaceful Valley.

What made this ski tour especially attractive was the fresh snow that fell in the few days before
we attempted our tour.

What a gorgeous way to spend a Saturday. The day had those magical Colorado winter qualities of blue skies, intense sunshine, fresh powder and gorgeous scenery. Life really does not get much better than that.

The cast of characters involves my usual companions as of late: Terry and Mike "D-low". Also with us were Kelda, Theresa and Colorado newcomer Deanna.

We met at Moe's Bagels for the all important morning coffee (as D-low is finding out quite quickly, I am just shy of useless without my morning coffee!) and greasy bagel sandwich fix.

Properly fueled, we split into two cars so as to park a car on both ends of the route.

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