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This weekend I went to Leadville to look for houses. \u00a0I flew to Denver on Friday night and stayed \u00a0close to the airport. \u00a0Early Saturday morning, I drove to Leadville and went straight to the Mt Elbert trailhead. \u00a0I wasn’t meeting the realtor until 3:30pm so I thought I’d see how high I could get before the snow was too unwieldy. \u00a0When my steps post holing got too much to bear, I was at\u00a0the first meadow right before tree line. \u00a0I sat down on a log and ate lunch.<\/p>\n

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The views \u00a0of the far range and Mt Massive to my north (picture below) were incredible. \u00a0The sun was shinning and the birds were very interested in my sandwich. \u00a0I managed to coax them in closer and closer until one would take the bread right out of my hands. \u00a0I was a little late clicking the button on the picture below, but you can see the bird flying away with a mouth full.<\/p>\n

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I only went 5 miles, but it took me over 3 hours to get through the sloppy snow. \u00a0I made it back in time to take a shower before looking at 10 houses with the agent. \u00a0I decided on one and put an offer in. \u00a0We’ll see if they will take it.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, I met a friend’s brother, Mark, who drove in from Denver. \u00a0He has the trail running bug and we decided to try our luck on the trail leading to Mt. Massive. \u00a0The one mile of switchbacks to get us back on the main part of the Colorado trail was relatively clear, but once we turned north, the snow was deep and we slowly made our way through it. \u00a0After a quarter mile or so, we decided to turn back and try going the other direction on the Colorado trail past the Mt Elbert trail turn off.<\/p>\n

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After running back down the hill, getting slightly lost, we climbed the switchbacks out of the other side of the valley. \u00a0Once on top, the trail was clear all the way to the turn off. \u00a0However, not more than a half of mile after, the snow was deep again. \u00a0We adjusted and decided to climb to the same point on Elbert I did the day before. \u00a0It took us over an hour, but I was again on the same log that I ate lunch on the day before. \u00a0Same great views, but more wind and no birds. \u00a0We decided to take a timed shot, but the camera fell before the picture was taken. \u00a0The resulting picture turned out pretty cool. \u00a0The following picture is the one we were hoping for.<\/p>\n

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We headed back down and ran across a furry friend on the trail<\/p>\n

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Once down, we didn’t feel we had enough so we ran the forest road for a few more miles. \u00a0My sea level lungs had to walk the hills, but Mark ran the whole thing. \u00a0In total, we did a little over 13 miles and climbed about 3,000ft. \u00a0All the pictures from the weekend are below.<\/p>\n

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