What a fun name for a mountain! Mount Sneffels stands tall among its neighbors and it really does catch your eye driving south towards Ridgway. This is the outing where I really learn Colorado is a pay to win state and I won’t apologize for saying that 😤. Beeeautiful views though.

Teakettle (tall), Coffeepot (above Jeep), Potosi (cut off). I parked and started about ~1600 feet below where this Jeep is 😠.

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Pay to win I tell you!

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All of the non-14er peaks looks so much cooler and more imposing

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Sneffels looks lame in comparison - the SW ridge starts behind the needles

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Looking at Kismet from the summit of Sneffels, now you can see Potosi in the background in full view. Dang those peaks look chossy to climb.

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Looking down at Yankee Boy Basin - really learning now that you need greenery to get the views to pop! That was definitely missing from the colorless peaks we’ve seen in Colorado earlier.

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Looking at the SW ridge with Telluride Ski Resort behind

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Looking more due west down into the numerously named Blue Lakes

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It was hard to capture on my phone camera but the flowers and foliage were popping off!

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Potosi Peak

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Notes

• This was probably ~8 miles and ~3400 feet of vertical gain in a little under 4 hours. I started at the lowermost trailhead at 10800 feet but you can drive as high as 12500 feet.
• Nothing notable about the southwest ridge, and the scree skiing down the standard route was not that bad.
• I think the takeaway is that all of the other peaks around here look so much cooler to explore!