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The same drive that passes through tundras descends into ranching country, like this section in Tabernash.
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Tundra Nature Trail
For a close-up look at tundra vegetation, stop at Rock Cut Overlook and walk the half-
mile Tundra Nature Trail. Here bucktoothed marmots sun themselves on rocks or scamper
acrosstheground.Lessathomearehumanvisitors,whooftengaspattheslightestexertion
in the thin air at 12,000 feet. But inhospitable as this setting may seem in the warmer
months, the scene in winter is truly forbidding: The wind can top 200 miles an hour, the
temperatureplungesto20°Fbelowzero,andsnowdriftscanreachasmuchas30feetdeep.
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