re: Trip Review: NM, AZ, UT, CO Road Trip

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What's the best time of year to do a trip West like this?

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For AZ and Utah, April-May. For Colorado, late July -September.

For what we did...June into July. Everything was calculated. Colorado was last just to give the snow another week or so to melt.
Even still, much of Colorado was inaccessible so we hiked what we knew we could. The steamboat area and the flat tops wilderness. All of that is 10-12k feet. Not 13-14k

In Utah, we camped up high to stay cool 8,000 ft +