This will be a quick blog for a quick hike. Brady Lake and Sopris Lake are neighboring entities isolated far out in the Holy Cross Wilderness of Colorado, closest by road to the small town of Minturn. The hike had been meant as a something to do midway through a camping trip near the larger […]
Read more "Brady Bop"West of Denver on the mostly 2-lane highway 285, a short ways before the iconic Kenosha Pass, there’s a jagged dirt road up to the trailhead for Gibson Lake. This was meant to be an easy hike for us: relatively low mileage and good scenery. However, we hadn’t accounted for the amount of smoke in […]
Read more "This Was Supposed To Be A Martini"Two rules of thumb when going on day hikes in Colorado: always try to leave before sunrise, and never take east-bound I-70 on a Sunday afternoon. We managed one of these on a recent Sunday when we left for the Vail area to make the hike up to Deluge Lake. The sun hadn’t yet crested […]
Read more "Climb To Safety"With the global situation being such as it is this summer, Rocky Mountain National Park has made the (rather wise) decision to do a slow reopening. Visitors arriving during the day are subject to timed entry restrictions. However, for those willing to be up before the sun, it’s possible to enter the park sans pass […]
Read more "Ypsilon Way To The Top"With so much happening in both our personal lives and the broader world, Skyler and I opted for a shorter hike on June 7th. Strawberry Lake, directly East of Granby and south of Lake Granby’s Arapaho Bay, would be about 3.7 miles round-trip according to online sources. The trailhead was easy to miss, as it […]
Read more "Strawberry Letter"Hello? Oh hey, we didn’t see you come in. It’s been a while! Apologies for that. This is not the first hike we’ve attempted in 2020. Though, through a series of not-so-fortunate events, it is the first hike this year worth being written about here. With snow on the decline and temperatures on the rise, […]
Read more "This Area Is Closed"In the quiet corner of Colorado where Skyler and I attended college, early fall is an exciting time of year. That’s because this region, the high-altitude Gunnison Valley, is home to vast forests of aspen trees, which change to a golden-leafed glory in the first few weeks of autumn. With weather still warm enough for […]
Read more "Storming The Castles"August 24, 2019. Our goal for the day was to summit Challenger Point and Kit Carson Peak. It’s morning, and the day’s first rays are starting to brighten the sky over the cold valley we had camped in north of Crestone. In a matter of mere minutes we went from wrapped in sleeping bags to […]
Read more "Trip Report: Ad Astra"“An easy hike.” “A few hours max.” That was the plan, but at least one of us is pretty bad at making plans. The idea for the day was to reach a small summit in Pike National Forest: Raleigh Peak. This was to be achieved by following part of the Colorado Trail to a segment […]
Read more "Scorched Earth Saunter"This summer has been an unusually stormy one for the state of Colorado, in turn making it more difficult to schedule hikes. With nothing but clouds in the weekend forecast, we decided to make an early morning foray to Rocky Mountain National Park. RMNP, generally best avoided during the summer months due to the insane […]
Read more "Warm Sandy Beaches"
The Overcast Adventurers 