Note: HCC students and volunteers will receive priority for registrations.  

This is a 6-day backpacking adventure (8 days with travel) and an excellent opportunity to experience the wonder of the beautiful Rocky Mountains, challenging yourself to a week-long backpacking adventure that is sure to be a life-long memory!

Wild Hearts will provide all necessary equipment, food for the week and guides.  We will also provide transportation out there and back, some training before the trip. Participants will be responsible for bringing appropriate clothing and food/money for food on the way there and back.

This backpacking trip will be done as a complete group, moving at the pace necessary for the whole group. We will be tenting in group tents, we will be cooking together and we will have the opportunity to summit a 14,000'+ peak if conditions permit.

This trip is for anyone looking for a mountain adventure! This promises to be an amazing adventure for those who are up for some mountain fun!

Additional info:

• We generally leave very early Saturday morning from the Twin Cities area. Usually, we want to depart no later than 5am. This allows us to arrive in the Denver area somewhere around 6:30pm Mountain time that same day.
• We stay in a hotel in the Denver area Saturday night. We will have 2-4 people stay in each room.
• We will get all the gear ready for backpacking in the hotel parking lot early Sunday morning and then head out towards Buena Vista, CO.
• Depending on our schedule and weather, we will either stay in a State Park outside of Ouray Sunday night or near the trailhead at our destination.
• Currently, our destination is Mount Harvard. There is considerable opportunities for dispersed camping less than a few miles from the trailhead.
• Our plan is to camp 3 nights on the trail around the Mount Harvard area.
• We will attempt to summit Mount Harvard with those that desire to do so.
• We will do some additional backpacking and may also have the opportunity to summit Mount Columbia if the group desires to do so.
• On Friday, we will head out of the mountains, travel beyond Denver and spend the night in a hotel near Sterling, CO.
• We will arrive home Saturday evening.

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