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With hot-and-cold running water, flush toilet, and shower, and an easy 2-mile approach, the NoLo Office is Colorado's most comfortable, most accessible backcountry hut. The Office provides the perfect introduction to winter backcountry travel, and we offer both guided and un-guided experiences, as well as avalanche education programming. The NoLo Office is great for families who want to introduce their kids to the backcountry!

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Backcountry Skiing at NoLo
A Film by Easton Gillespie, 9, of Silverthorne, CO

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NoLo Operates under an Outfitter and Guides Permit with the
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A Legacy of Backcountry Skiing in the Mosquito Range

A stained-glass portrait of Father Dyer, considered one of the 16 ‘Founders’ of the State of Colorado, is installed in the dome of the Colorado State Capitol.

Now for some of the incidents in the mail-service. The mail’s weight was from twenty-three to twenty-six pounds, with from five to seven pounds of express matter. The carriage was on snow-shoes, over an Indian trail that was covered from three to twenty feet with snow. My snow-shoes were of the Norway style, from nine to eleven feet in length, and ran well when the snow was just right, but very heavy when they gathered snow. I carried a pole to jar the sticking snow off.

From The Snowshoe Itinerant, Father John Lewis Dyer, 1890

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Father Dyer was one of the first Methodist ministers to tour Colorado's high-country mining camps. He came to Denver from Minnesota in 1861. In Denver, he received orders to take over the Blue River Mission in Summit County, Colorado, in 1862. The following year, 1863, he received new orders and a new circuit. The new circuit encompassed Park City (Alma), Fairplay and Leadville. John Dyer was 50 years old when he began the mining camp circuits and he became acquainted with Norwegian snowshoes from split pine logs. The tips were boiled and turned up for his trips over 13,188 foot Mosquito Range where snow often drifted 20 feet deep. He was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1977.