The snow takes a long time to melt way up in the highest mountains of Colorado. The tallest peaks are the ones people call the 14′ers (meaning 14,000 ft. in elevation). We have 54 of these in Colorado and over the week of July 4th Dave (he works in quality here at Bestop), myself, and a couple sidekicks had the opportunity to take the Jeep to Imogene Pass.
Imogene Pass doesn’t quite reach 14,000 feet, but it does get up to 13, 114 feet - close enough if you ask me ;-) There was still a ton of snow at the top. They actually were able to just open the trail a few weeks before, after enough snow had finally melted.
We took the pass all the way from Ouray to Telluride, two small mountain towns in Colorado.
Snow in July
The sidekicks
An old mine
Great views!
At the top!
