We determined that there is only about a six week window to do this area. Five weeks ago we went and were blocked on Webster Pass by a huge snow drift. This time the drift was gone, but 8 inches of fresh snow replaced it. Beautiful!
At the top of one of the peaks, two beautiful Mountain Goats visited and stayed with us for about 20 minutes. Pretty special experience to be this close to them and not spook them away. They just came walking up the path towards us and a few times Kevin had to hold his hand out and shout to keep them at a safe distance. They were beautiful creatures with a new white winter coat blowing in the breeze.
Red Cone hill is a VERY steep hill which they have made one-way because of the steepness. The snow made it twice as scary! We passed a few trucks who chickened out and turned back. We took it nice and slow and slid a few times which pushed our hearts in our throats a bit.
As we reached the peak at 12,801 feet, a blizzard decided to come in too. We were grateful that it didn't arrive as we were creeping down the slope, but we decided that it wasn't going to let up and decided to go all the way down. We threw a blanket all the way over Jadeyn's head and went down as fast as we could!!
It was pretty much white-out conditions on the narrow ledge down the mountain. We were glad that we had decided to call it a day because the snow didn't let up and the rain continued all day back at camp.
Some other hightlights of our short trip were the coming of the beautiful fall leaves. It seemed as if the leaves were changing right before our eyes since the temperature has dropped so rapidly at 10,000 feet where we were camped. We had been to this campground before and Jadeyn knew exactly what was waiting for him: "beads!" They are actually pellets from an airsoft gun, but he has such fun collecting them!
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