University graduates face schools: charming lead to the sunny exit

Hello dear readers! Beanie Baby and Cookie Monster here. We are a little behind in blog posts, they have been occupied and difficult in Colorado. But here we are, finally, with our update in the Collegiate Peaks section!

The path began mainly below the tree line, which was good. The hills and many trees made for a relatively cold section, especially because the weather was a bit stormy. I (Beanie Baby) realized that I had walked part of this same section of the path before as a summer student with the High Mountain Institute! He brought me many memories and made me realize how far I have arrived as a backpack. We enjoyed the emerging colors of the Álamos as we walked.

Things got worse when I realized that I had forgotten not one but two important pieces of teams in Leadville: our flat and fuel. Oh! Fortunately, this was our shortest stop among the resupplies of the entire path, and we knew that we could obtain fuel in the twin lakes. However, tragically, I had already combined our pasta and other ingredients with water before realizing that we were without fuel, which forced us to soak a meal that was not really destined to be soaked cold.

Fortunately, the next day we arrived on Twin Lakes, where we were waiting for a hiker box with fuel. And our friend Trebeard, who was still in Leadville, sent us very kindly to our homicide to our pool that is coming by exit. We were very grateful for both positions!

After the twin lakes, we entered the most exposed and high elevation part of the schools. We start brilliant (good, dark) and early with Hope Pass.

We chose the West University Route, which gave us more views but more elevation and exhibition gain than the east. It was difficult but it was worth it!

It was also lovely to be in a desert area again. We had also gone through the Mount Massive desert before. As always in this section, we enjoy the extremely well maintained and well marked path in the CT.

Our pleasant weather window ended one night with a snowstorm that proceeded to last all night and covered the mountains with a beautiful dust near us, and a heavier blanket to our north. We were kind and welcoming in our store, but we had to emerge for a cold morning the next day.

The snow continued again for the rest of the day, which makes an impressive but cold hiking while we approach the pass after the pass.

After the storm decreased, we entered more wooded sections, which was a welcome relief, except for finding a review! We were surprised to find so twisted in the Immaculately maintained TC.

At this point, we had endured several nights of cold temperatures and we were very happy to have our warm sleep settings and the recent addition of swollen pants. Our last morning of the section made us bright and early to walk to Monarch Pass. We went up and we spent several impressive lakes before a few hours unnecessarily around the local skiing station. He gave us a clear day where we could see to the San Juan!

We met some other hikers in the pass that arrived at Starving exit, where we headed to the Sweetie sandwiches store, a friend’s recommendation. He did not disappoint, and we reduced three sandwiches between the two before remembering to take a photo for the blog!

In the shelter, we met with several other hikers that we had not seen in a long time, including our Radio and Pop friends and our university classmate Butter, whom we had not yet seen in the CDT! We enjoy a relaxing zero day here, cooking some pleasant meals and enjoying the hammock forest. We were somewhat discouraged to be zero during such a pleasant climate, but it was a good time.

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