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Article: COOL DIGS IGLOO HELPS TAKE BITE OUT OF COLD WINTER NIGHTS.(High Country)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2001
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Byline: Ted Alan Stedman Special to the News
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK -- It's mid-winter. We're at 11,000 feet, and Arctic-like winds that sound like a squadron of F-14s are roaring off the Continental Divide.
In a few hours, the feeble rays of the sun will disappear behind the crags of Hallet Peak, and the stingingly cold air will slap us with a frigid below-zero wallop.
We've snowshoed into the backcountry with 50-pound packs crammed with winter survival gear. Except for tents.
And since the two of us are getting ready to spend the night clinging to the side of a mountain surrounded by nothing but rock, ice and snow, I figure ...