We left for the mountains before sunrise. With a sparse 2020 now behind us, we were anxious to get outside and start making 2021 a brighter year. Looking at forecasts and trail conditions, we decided that brighter year would be best begun at Rocky Mountain National Park, specifically the hike to Mills Lake near the […]
Read more "Mills To Pay The Bills"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"I needed an escape: a recess from the existential gloom that is living through this pandemic. Ty unfortunately could not join for this escapade, he has been hard at work helping to run time-sensitive COVID-19 diagnostic tests for CU Boulder through his lab research gig. Godspeed, Ty! Lurking just beneath the jagged precipices of the […]
Read more "Hot Take on Lonesome Lake"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"The morning air was brisk and the sounds…unusual. Typically, we want wilderness when we set out: going to great lengths to seek settings of solitude, pursuing peace and quiet. The unusual sounds? The thunder of cars and semis barreling along I-70. Never before had we started a hike so close to a major interstate, but […]
Read more "Fountain of Booth"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"This week we have just a quick post from the b-e-a-utiful Sangre de Cristo Range. The Overcast Adventurers, plus Skyler’s friends Jesse (a returning guest star) and Barkley (a dog), braved glaring sunlight to hike up to Venable Lake. The trailhead for this hike started just past the old towns of Silver Cliff and Westcliffe. […]
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