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I'm Tanya Wilmuth.

The summer I had the chance, I think maybe it was my third time, to hike the Maroon Bell's Pass between Crested Butte and Aspen. And the way it works is we

hike through one day. It's like 10 or 11 miles, spend the night in Crested Butte and then hike back

through the pass again the other day or the next day. Day one was beautiful and sunny. Day two

looked to be okay, but we got on the trail at about 7 a.m.

And the clouds were already rolling in over the top of the pass.

Now, usually when you're hiking in Colorado, the goal in the summer is to be over the pass by

noon because that's when the storms roll in.

But on this particular day, the weather was looking pretty unpredictable. And the clouds

were already starting around 9 a.m., which meant we were going to have a solid four hours in rain

if it decided to come. So we're heading up, we're climbing, and we picked up our pace at least as much as we could, hiking uphill

and in altitude, which these Missouri bodies aren't really used to. And just as we made it to the

top of the pass, which in that direction is four miles in, we came over the top, we kind of rounded

the corner, and the wind hit us, and it started blowing

hail, rain, ice mixture, whatever, into our faces, and the lightning and the thunder started

getting closer and closer together. And this all happened as our sweaty bodies from hiking

up quickly were getting cold, not only from the wind

and the change in temperature, but from the chill that just comes from being in the rain and above

tree line. So then we really got in a hurry. Now we were on the way down and we wanted to get to the

trees before the lightning got closer. Well, to say we didn't make

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