How to find (and photograph) Colorado’s best snow-capped mountain views

How to find (and photograph) Colorado’s best snow-capped mountain views

You haven’t truly experienced a Colorado winter until you’ve pulled off a highway in January to take a photo, stepped confidently into what you thought was a nice, packed-down patch of snow and immediately plunged crotch-deep into a frozen abyss. One moment you’re standing in your winter driving moccasins, the next you’re submerged to the hips, legs encased in four feet of crusty ice layers, wondering how you’re going to explain this to your chi…