COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Officials near Conundrum Hot Springs have a literal conundrum on their hands -- what to do with several frozen cows stuck in a cabin?The six cows are wedged inside a small cabin. The Colorado Cattlemen's Association said the cows likely wandered in seeking shelter during a storm and weren't able to figure out how to get back out and starved to death.Two U.S. Air Force Academy cadets made the discovery while hiking Conundrum Pass between Aspen and Crested Butte in late March. The cadets tell 7NEWS they initially thought they stumbled upon a sleeping bear."We decided we were going to snowshoe to Conundrum Hot Springs near Aspen," said cadet Marshall Kay, 21, a junior at the Air Force Academy."When I walked up to the doorway there was a head," said junior Air Force cadet Cameron Harris, 20. "It scared me. I thought it was a bear initially.""Cameron got there first and he says, 'Ah, I think we're going to have to sleep on the snow tonight, man. The cabin's full of frozen cows,'" said Kay."There's no way we're staying here tonight. The floor is covered," said Harris to Kay during their hike. "And he's like, 'What are you talking about?' and I was like, 'Well, there's dead cows in here.'""I didn't know what the heck he was talking about," said Kay."For us, it was quite odd. Everything was weird for us at the beginning.,” Harris said. “I mean, we're two Texas boys.”
