Chris went into an outdoor shop to figure out where we could hike in Crested Butte. He asked for an easy to moderate hike. The girl who worked there, who also said she grew up in the area, suggested going up to Copper Lake. It would be a moderate 5 mile hike up to the lake. What she did not tell us was that this was probably the wrong time of year to hike there. The beautiful lake she mentioned was frozen and the campsites were covered in snow. The mountain was just starting to thaw so at about 11,000 feet up we also had to hike through about a mile and a half of snow and cross five creeks of pure snow runoff. Needless to say they were freezing and moving fast. As we were getting closer to the lake, there was only one other set of footprints and they were pretty old. When we got to the top we realized we are probably one of very few people who manage to see the lake the way we did.
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