We took a nice one day stop at White Star Campground where we boated across Twin Lake to the old Interlachen Hotel resort (the nicest resort in the late 1890s). Now closed, you could still feel the presence of a happening place where the wealthy patrons from the silver mines of Leadville came to relax, fish, ride horses, and have fun.
Then we drove through Aspen to Maroon Bells where we knew we were in the Rockies. First we set up camp in one of the only two sites that BIW would fit. With 3 boards under each of our front tires, we were almost level - good teamwork to setup on this site. But who could complain with the view of the snow covered mountains and the stream rushing by our site.
Maroon Bells is magnificent!!! Hiked the Crater Lake trail 1.75 miles up to the lake and meadow, a climb of 760 feet; then headed back; easier hiking but very rocky. The next few days we hiked many other mountain trails including the 3.5 mile Maroon Creek trail. Picked up a passenger butterfly that we named Amy. She kept us company all the way back.
It was cold with temps dropping down to 30 at night but with our propane furnace and generator, we weren't roughing it. On our second night a heavy rain started, and then it got quiet because it was snowing; the next morning we went to view the Maroon Bells and they were covered with 6-10" of snow -- WOW!
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