This is my second time using the gpx upload feature- so much better, at least for the ascent portion. Not sure what happened after that. Anyway, my Sept 1-3 Maroon Bells reservations I had to make back in April got cancelled due to the only stormy days in August, but I was luckily able to snag a spot in my friends car who was heading down a few days later. We camped out on some piece of pavement off of Castle Creek Rd, broke down at 3ish AM, drove to Maroon Lake TH and dragged our way too heavy bags up to basecamp at Crater Lake (not much water there btw). It was a long long haul, and I was dragging my a$$ for most of it. We definitely did some extra work in places but made up for it with shortcuts. After ascending up the dreadful bowl sides, we made a line for the summit from the ridge. This peaks is so damn cool. Lots of Indiana Jones type moves, stretching out across catwalks and ledges, and jumping over drops. Lots of goats at the top waiting for people to pee. We got down about 3-4pm Id guess and rested up for the bells traverse the following day.