This time of year, blue skies and warm sunshine are calling. Spring weather albeit between intermittent snowstorms after a winter with a strong snowpack is sure to have adventurers seeking out the Summit.
In one week, a Colorado search and rescue team had to perform three rescues on the same fourteener. The cause? The spring snowpack pulled off hikers' shoes, leaving them barefoot above treeline.
Late Thursday night, Summit County Rescue Group volunteers were called to Quandary Peak to rescue three out-of-state hikers. One of them was postholing sinking into the snow past the knees, to the point where.