These figures are as close as I know them to be. I will post the official report when it comes out (I don't have a GPS unit, but the father who put the trip together had his).
We got to Snowmass Village a little after 08:00 and had breakfast with the girls. We packed up the luggage from the room, and repacked the gear we were going to hike with based on the weather. I was carying a 25 lb. pack for the day. When all was said and done, we got going some time around 10:00 or so and finished up the hike after 15:00. We started at just over 9,000 foot elevation and stopped at the 10,200 foot hump. The ski lift that was supposed to take us up to that point so we could hike the final 3,000 feet was closed for another week, and that first 1,000 was the hardest part of the climb that we had planned. I was not ready for the near 45 degree land with loose rock that we chose to climb straight up rather than stay on the bike trails we started out on. I'll be sore for the next week most likely.
All in all, it was a good hike, and though we didn't make the top, it was good exercise and I now have an idea of what to work on in prep for the next hike. When my body recovers, I'm going to load up my pack with 30-40 lbs. of weight and walk for a few hours every couple of days. The pack is great and I plan to keep it. Also, my new hiking boots worked out perfectly, I don't have any blisters (even though I didn't have enough time to properly break them in).
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