it was a cold august morning and overnight aspen had its first snow of the season
good morning from aspen highlands in aspen colorado
this is where i will be boarding a shuttle to head up to maroon bells
there are several hoops that you have to jump through in order to visit the area including
buses and shuttles i'll tell you more about that later i'm really excited because i've never been
to maroon bells and it's someplace that i wanted to see for quite some time i will be doing
some day hiking up there and just exploring the area it's gonna be a great day i'm super stoked
i was immediately awestruck by the majesty of the maroon bells the plan for the day was to
hike the crater lake trail the maroon bells are a series of distinctively bell-shaped
wine colored peaks towering 14 000 feet above the pristine glacial maroon creek valley
so
do
so far it's been an awesome hike it was very cold last night and it rained
there was even a dusting of snow so it was pretty chilly this morning into the
mid 30s it's warming up quite a bit it's a beautiful sunny day and it's gorgeous here
so
how unbelievably gorgeous is this
it looks unreal looks like a painting i can see why this hike is so popular
much
i've made it back to my rig where i just did a quick clean up and change all i can say is wow
maroon bells is absolutely stunning as i mentioned there are a few hoops that you need to jump
through in order to get up there and gain access to the bells everything went really smooth just to
let you know but you do need to reserve either parking in advance which unfortunately since
i was very last minute there wasn't any parking available and you do also have to pay for it
or if you can't get the parking you need to take a shuttle in and you need to reserve a time when i
booked this it was just a couple days in advance and there were times available pretty much all day
the earlier portion of the morning was sold out i got a 9 15 shuttle and it just all worked out just
fine the the public transportation is very well organized it runs really smooth so don't let that
scare you off to be honest i think it's it's worth seeing and if that's what you need to do to see it
then so be it i had no issues just visit the aspen chamber of commerce site for all the information
right now i'm going to head to my next camp which will take me over independence pass that
is the highest paved pass in colorado i've heard amazing things about it that it's very beautiful
so i am excited to drive it and i'm going to take you with me
we are about to traverse the top of the rockies scenic byway over independence pass
so
i made it to my next camp and you guys were right the pass was incredible thank you to
everyone who suggested it i am going to go ahead and in this video here i will
show you my next camp in the next video so stay tuned for that thank you so much for joining me
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