Quite the Conundrum: Backpacking Aspen’s Snowmass Wilderness

A greatly disputed Colorado factoid is that we allegedly get about three hundred days of sunshine per year. This may or may not be true, but the general consensus is that when it’s not dumping snow or being choked with wildfire smoke, the sky is- more often than not- blue. This was not the case last week when I hiked nine miles through Aspen’s Snowmass Wilderness to Conundrum Hot Springs.