Work over for the day I felt driven to use up the remaining daylight with a hike. North Table Mountain won out since the trails were likely to be dry and I could start the hike from my front door. A few blocks later I was starting up the initial switchbacks when something went zipping [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Wild North Table
Posted in hiking, tagged coyote, North Table Mountain on February 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Hidden Valley
Posted in skiing, tagged Hidden Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, skiing on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Icy roads and the warning sign of a pickup laying on its drivers side kept us moving slow up to Estes Park and then on into Rocky Mountain National Park. Stopping at the old Hidden Valley ski area (more history here) we took shelter at the warming hut from the winds and finished suiting up. [...]
Stevens Gulch
Posted in backpacking, skiing, tagged Stevens Gulch, winter camping on February 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Late Friday afternoon plans were falling apart for the weekend. Thankfully, new ones were partially taking their place, but I needed to fill a void for Friday night into Saturday. Wanting another night of winter camping I drove to Bakerville on I-70 and started to skin up the road. Near the intersection with Grizzly Gulch [...]
Spruce Creek
Posted in backpacking, skiing, tagged Father Dyer Peak, Lower Crystal Lake, Spruce Creek, winter camping on February 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’d been a few months since I’d really camped out and I’ll admit to missing sleeping in the cold and laying in a warm sleeping bag for hours. After a quick drive up to Breckenridge and south to the Spruce Creek trailhead I set off with lingering daylight skinning up the Spruce Creek Road, then [...]
Mo’ Snow
Posted in skiing, tagged Boreas Pass Road, Breckenridge, skinning on February 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Again I’m up in Breckenridge for the weekend and start Saturday morning with a 2,000 foot climb up to the top of the Mercury chair on Peak 9 before the lifts open to the paying clientele. The climb goes slower this weekend with 5-6 inches of new snow on the upper slopes to break trail [...]
