 Hey guys, Matthew LaCroix here back for another mountain adventure in the Rocky Mountains today we're actually in Rocky Mountain National Park so it's a totally different area than from the last trip and we will be attempting to ascend up to Flat Top Mountain and then hopefully Halit Peak at nearly 13,000 feet that's going to be very dependent on the conditions though it is very windy a lot of snow has fallen two to three feet above above 11,000 feet so it could be another pretty wild adventure but hey that's kind of what I do anyway so let's some let's see where this goes and hopefully we can reach Halit Peak at almost 13,000 feet but either way we're going to get above treeline and it's going to be spectacular the sun's going to come out and it's just going to be an incredibly beautiful snowy landscape so let's see what this adventure holds you ready so today's video is part two of a new series I'm starting on my channel that explores the Alpine adventures and wilderness journeys and maybe provides a little bit of knowledge along the way a little perspective a lot of people ask me why I do this and why I go alone sometimes and truly I like to tell them that I really think that one of the most exhilarating things you can do is push yourself to the limits but in a way where you're still not taking so much risk that you're just have certain death it's one of those things where you told the line and that truly makes that truly makes it worth living in these experiences we have here but being going out in the wilderness and doing Alpine adventures is a lot more important than some may know and it's more about helping to ground an individual and provide that needed clarity for so many of the things that bombard us and pull us away from what really matters and that's why we have to push ourselves and go on adventures because remember not all those who wander are truly lost so far the conditions are actually pretty good the winds are supposed to slightly lighten around lunchtime I think they're currently hurricane force winds above tree line but it's all part of the adventure right well we're almost at tree line just above that hill and up there and we're in extremely deep snow definitely is challenging me right now we're in I'm doing four or five feet of breaking trail right now and even with snowshoes on it's extremely difficult I'm gonna show you what I'm talking about here I'm getting into some very steep slopes and what happens is when you get the winds that come cresting over the content to divide they blow a ton of snow down into these areas just below tree line and you get these huge snow fields and we do have a high avalanche danger today so I probably should be a little careful about that so I want to show you what I just went up this is definitely getting interesting quite a slope we're ascending right now with some beautiful views as we get up towards 12,000 feet absolutely spectacular but we're just about tree line right up there and not a hundred percent sure I'm still on the trail or not so the good news is we found the trail and we are about to crest tree line absolutely beautiful out here and we're in some pretty extreme snowdrifts and look at this one coming up just puts a new gear on there's a second we get over the top of this the winds are gonna howl look at these snowdrifts though 50 to 100 miles or more yeah the beauty of Rocky National Park and that's where we're going I tell you that the second we get to that that rocky outcrop up there crest that that top of that ridge winds are gonna really really increase we're about to crest 12,000 feet we are up on a massive open open tundra environment up to crest over the top of this hill never gonna see how far we can make this is an absolutely spectacular place to be right now so beautiful mountains just all around me so far the winds are totally doable so good news and bad news good news first we've passed 12,000 feet we're at the top of the continental divide so that's a milestone zone the winds are definitely increasing and the peak we're about to climb looks like it's a little rough to snow just whipping off the sun even to me that looks a little wild up there this spot I'm standing in is literally a sheer drop of like 2,000 people