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Seen from the air, sunlight parts the clouds and illuminates a snowy peak in the stark and rugged San Juan Mountains. Shafts of silver, not sunlight, lured miners into Colorado's wilderness where now rugged trails form the Alpine Loop, a Bureau of Land Management back country byway with more than a glimmer of mountain splendor.

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The Big Open_Public Lands_National Geographic magazine and book 8/2001
Seen from the air, sunlight parts the clouds and illuminates a snowy peak in the stark and rugged San Juan Mountains. Shafts of silver, not sunlight, lured miners into Colorado's wilderness where now rugged trails form the Alpine Loop, a Bureau of Land Management back country byway with more than a glimmer of mountain splendor.