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| Andra, Frank and I drove from Fort Collins to Laramie, then turned west and soon found ourselves amid the rugged peaks of the Snowy Range in the Medicine Bow Mountains in southeastern Wyoming. We had hoped to have a nice hiking day, but the sky was overcast and it was very cold so we didn't end up hiking very far. We parked on the side of the road and trudged through the deep snow up to the first ridge which fell down towards two lakes at the edge of sheer rock faces. We walked along the ridge to the south, Frank blazing the trail for us. His skinny little legs buried themselves so quickly in snow that he had to work like a horse to run through it, looking pretty funny in the process. Someday I'll return to explore this place under more favorable weather conditions. |