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... peaks - Elbert and La Plata . The town of Twin Lakes consists of a combined store and filling station , a hotel , a schoolhouse and a cluster of cottages and cabins set back from the lake shore . Behind it towers Mt. Elbert , Colorado's ...
... peaks - Elbert and La Plata . The town of Twin Lakes consists of a combined store and filling station , a hotel , a schoolhouse and a cluster of cottages and cabins set back from the lake shore . Behind it towers Mt. Elbert , Colorado's ...
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... peaks were flat too . We were over 11,000 feet , and the air was thin and sharp . The trip back was slow too , for the truck had to pick its way across the broken land with great care . But we let Mr. Clark do the driving , while we ...
... peaks were flat too . We were over 11,000 feet , and the air was thin and sharp . The trip back was slow too , for the truck had to pick its way across the broken land with great care . But we let Mr. Clark do the driving , while we ...
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... peaks with snow patches on their sides towered above us . The farther we rode , the more overcast the sky became . Crossing the creek once more , we headed straight up a mountainside toward a pass between two peaks . High on this slope ...
... peaks with snow patches on their sides towered above us . The farther we rode , the more overcast the sky became . Crossing the creek once more , we headed straight up a mountainside toward a pass between two peaks . High on this slope ...
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