John LaConte/jlaconte@vaildaily.com
Wildfires are raging across the Northwest, aided by winds of a high pressure system that is bringing the smoke from those fires to Colorado.
The result is hazy skies over Eagle County that are likely to continue for the next few days.
. Wildfires began to spark across the region in the dry and windy days that followed.
As of Sunday afternoon, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon had grown to more than 140,000 acres, an area of about 220 square miles. The Dry Gulch Fire in Oregon in Idaho is more than 50,000 acres, the Robertson Draw Fire on the Wyoming/Montana border is at about 30,000 acres and the MY Complex Fire in Montana
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Opus Hut, which is at 11,600 feet above Silverton, is the closest you’re going to get to a full-service refuge in the Pyrenees. (Brett Schrenkengost, provided by Opus Hut)
Skiers get all the love with hut trips. Users are quick to share which shelters have the best access to crazy lines and the best backcountry terrain. Or which huts you can link together into a long ski tour.
But Colorado has a lot of huts and shelters reachable by incredible and safe snowshoe hikes, with adjacent trails for shoeing, nearby slopes for world-class sledding, or even a sauna to relax in without being bombarded with a crowd of boozed-up, smelly ski bums (if that’s not your vibe).