Maroon Bells

The classic picture of the Maroon Bells from Maroon Lake.


Josh making photogenic turns in the Y couloir. Crater lake, where we set basecamp, is the close one.


Josh fixed this one up to show our route. He also has a really cool video of me skiing on his blog that I couldn't steal. Hit the link in the right panel for more pics. From the top of the Y couloir I actually skied the sick cliffed out line skiers right of the route shown.

Last weekend, Josh and I escaped on Thursday to head out to the Maroon Peaks near Aspen. After sleeping in until 4 Friday morning and much dirking around (mostly my fault) we finally managed to climb Maroon Peak via the Bell Cord couloir. We then had a sweet ski down the Y couloir after carrying our skis over the top. It was a long day, but one of the most fun I have had in the mountains in quite some time. It was neat climbing in a simply beautiful setting. Friday night we ate and drank as much as possible before passing out under the stars in a lush meadow right on the shore of the lake. When we woke up Saturday morning we didn't even attempt to climb Pyramid Peak per the original plan. We were too whooped, so we just soaked up the view until the tourist-day-hikers came in.