Picking It Up

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I spent my first day in Estes snowshoeing the backcountry of Rocky Mountain National Park with Estes Park Rock Climbing. Our guide Matt lead us on a four hour tour through snow covered trees to a wind-whipped frozen lake. This particular tour, the company’s most popular, ended with a whiskey tasting at Elkins Distillery. A glass of spiced whiskey melted away the last bit of frozen sensations from the long winter morning. With taxidermied deer heads hanging on the wall and Ryan Bingham playing on the jukebox I almost felt like I was in one of the small bars that dot Texas’ backroads until I looked out the window to the nearby snow capped peaks.

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