After a night of partying we decided that we were still up for an adventure. So we decided to go through with the plan to backpack to the Grey Rock Meadow. This was delayed due to awful road conditions; thanks to the large amount of snow that hit Colorado this past weekend. We got back to Fort Collins around 5:30 pm. We then took an hour and a half to get ready then it took an hour to get to the trailhead. Once there we began the much longer than normal trek to the meadow via the meadows loop. This began with everyone layered up. After the trail became steeper people began to drop layers. I had shed everything but at t-shirt and pants. It was great though it was only 10 degrees and snowing. We eventually made it to the meadow, but my GPS was not having it in the cold. (Should have kept it in my pack) This lead us to wander around the meadow a little until I got my GPS to work again then we followed it to the waypoint I had put there from a previous trip. Then once at camp we set up the tent while some people got to work on a fire. Luckily we had decided to stop at a gas station and get some lighter fluid making the fire starting easy in the snow. Once camp was set up we began cooking dinner which was mostly reheating the great tamales from tamale kitchen. Then with the snow continued to fall so we began heading off to bed. After a night of ok sleep we awoke to more gorgeous snow on the ground. The only problem was that the temperature had dropped to around 0 or -5 when we woke up. It was bone chilling, but beautiful. We had a great breakfast of hash browns and you guessed it more tamale. Then we ate some oatmeal as we packed up camp and prepared for the epic journey out of the meadow. We began with the moderately short uphill climb to the top ridge boarding the meadow. Then came one of the most fun descents I have ever had where we ran/ sledded down the face of the ridge. It was awesome get down so quickly and have some much fun; as well as no one had been hurt during our rapid descent of the ridge. Then we had the trek through the valley back to the bridge to cross the river and return to my truck.
Likaility: 9/10 It was great notch in the belt to add snowshoe backpacking to my resume.
Likaility: 9/10 It was great notch in the belt to add snowshoe backpacking to my resume.