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Berthoud Pass is south of Winter Park on Hwy 40. We were out backcountry skiing to complete our Avalanche Level I course. Most of us Telemark and a few snowshoe/snowboard. Its great to have the freedom to move around the mountains in the winter.

  Mountain driving is terrifying!  I have driven in the Smokey Mountains several times and have had no problems, but the Rocky Mountains are completely different.  In fact, I never ever want to drive through them again.  So, I just want to send out a few words of caution about it:      If you are afraid of heights you will not like driving through the Rockies.      If you are the passanger of a really bad driver please insist on dr...

We continued in the direction of Rocky Mountain NP. We finally ended up in Winter Park, a few miles from the park entrance. The first parts of Colorado (coming from Utah) were quite boring, but while gettinghigher the surroundings got more beautiful. We roughly followed the Colorado River, passing Vail.