Summer Stashes: Photographer Jesse Levine explores the reaches of Rocky Mountain National Park

For this installment of “Summer Stashes,” Jesse Levine takes us on a tour of earlier summer adventures to some of his favorite places for warm-weather skiing in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Looking for Gold: An Adventure into Colorado’s Most Remote Wilderness

The plan is to take the 130-year-old, coal-burning train 20 miles into the Colorado backcountry where we will access Chicago Basin, a remote drainage containing three 14,000 foot peaks. The goal is to hike six miles into a base camp on Saturday, ski all three 14ers on Sunday and hike back to the train by 3 p.m. on Monday. It’s not lost on the group that this is an ambitious goal, but we board the train with optimism.

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