FREMONT PASS! Winter Colorado Pictures From Copper Mountain To Leadville (January 28, 2006)
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Driving eastbound and downhill from Vail Pass
and heading towards the Copper Mountain Ski Resort exit, I thought
this would be the best place to start my Fremont Pass pictorial! |
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I know the sign is crooked, but I think it looks cool! ;) |
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The pesky sun in the background gave me all sorts of problems, but there's a shot of the Copper Mountain Ski Resort that I took on the shoulder of Interstate 70. |
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Before we headed up Highway 91 to Fremont Pass, I took a couple of shots
of the entrance to Copper Mountain and the Ten Mile Range (above - Breckenridge is on the other side of that range) and myself standing on a huge snowdrift. |
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Heading up the pass towards Leadville and
Lake County, we stopped at the Mayflower Creek trailhead parking lot.
Looking back across the street, notice the flabby-looking snow drifts on that mountain (above). The beautiful jagged mountain (middle) is Fletcher Mountain (alt. 13,951 feet), and I snuck a shot of my buddy Scott as he took a photo. ;)
Here are all of my Colorado pass pictorials:
Cottonwood Pass,
Independence Pass, Dallas Divide
Monarch Pass, Hoosier Pass,
Hagerman Pass, Vail Pass
Wilkerson Pass,
Trout Creek Pass,
Eisenhower Tunnel (I-70)
Lizard Head Pass, Poncha Pass, Tennessee Pass
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(We're still on the western side of the pass folks!)
Just up the road is another stunning view of the mountains at Clinton Gulch Reservoir. |
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At the summit, I snapped a shot a picture of Mt. Arkansas (alt. 13,795 feet). By the way, the snow drifts were so high that the official Fremont Pass sign was buried! |
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Across the highway, a shot of a mining operation that is currently in operation. |
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And look, it's Mt. Democrat (alt. 14,148 feet) from the "back side"! :) Want proof? In the right photo (dated July 2004), that's the view of Highway 91 at the Mt. Democrat summit. I took the left photo on the highway somewhere uphill of the "U" on the right hand side. |
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It was all downhill after reaching the pass! |
