Hello, dearest readers! This is Skyler writing to you once again, back to deliver on a promise I made in my last post. I mentioned there that Tyler and I had embarked on a glorious hike to Beartrack Lakes (which I had misnamed as Beartracks Lake; sorry!) in the Mt. Evans Wilderness area, but the […]
Read more "Lake It Easy!"Happy August! This is Skyler writing to you with a special extended post; my first solo post in over a year! The ~2 months of downtime from our blog is by no means the result of a lack of trying, but I apologize regardless for the long hiatus. If you stick around to the end […]
Read more "The Heavens Below Mount Evans"The state of Colorado shares about 270 miles of border with its neighboring state, Utah. This border starts in the south at the Four Corners and then goes directly north. It passes Canyons of the Ancients, straddles the La Sal Mountains, cuts across the Colorado River, and then crosses the White River. The border then […]
Read more "A Ruple In Time"We, The Overcast Adventurers, have an issue with planning ahead of time. It isn’t that we don’t plan ahead, it’s that we plan too far ahead. This is a major problem in Colorado, where weather can change on a dime, and was a problem for us yet again when planning this trip. The original plan […]
Read more "Skaguay or the Highway"We had never before traveled to the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness. In fact, up until the day of the hike, we had never even intended to travel to the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness. After planning a hike to a “Buffalo Peak” on the east side of the South Park Basin in Colorado though, we accidentally found ourselves […]
Read more "Where The Buffalo Roam"If ‘heavily trafficked’ is used to describe the volume of other potential recreationists one might see on a trail, I often make a point to seek out a lesser-trafficked path. One of the great comforts of nature for me is solitude, quiet—a respite from Denver’s constant cacophony—somewhere to clear my thoughts and enjoy the natural […]
Read more "Continental Divide and Seek"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 […]
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