Bear Peak being my favorite summit above Boulder, I decided to hike back up a week after Tara and I did it from Shadow Canyon. This time I decided to head up the steep Fern Canyon Trail and descend west and north into Bear Creek for the return journey. I stopped and played with a [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Tour de Bear
Posted in hiking, tagged Bear Canyon, Bear Peak, Boulder on February 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
South Boulder and Bear Peak
Posted in hiking, tagged Bear Peak, Boulder, hiking, South Boulder Peak on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday Tara and I went out to see how much snow had melted from the storm 2 weeks ago in the hills above town. Answer: not much. From the South Mesa trailhead we found lots of mud and well packed snow on the Towhee trail on the way to Shadow Canyon. Once in Shadow Canyon [...]
Thatchtop
Posted in hiking, tagged Rocky Mountain National Park, Thatchtop, The Loch on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pete, Jason and I left the Glacier Gorge trailhead about 6:30 am, just light enough not to need headlamps. While heading up to The Loch we had a few views of the #1 peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Since I hadn’t been up here in winter before, I navigated us onto the summer trailhead [...]
Mallory Cave Trail
Posted in hiking, tagged Boulder, Mallory Cave Trail on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
After skiing in the new snow up in the mountains on Saturday, I returned to Boulder’s week-old snow for a hike up the Mallory Cave Trail. Unlike last week’s deep snow hike up Green Mountain, today the trails were well backed until the very upper reaches of the trail. Many of these formations are ones [...]
Breckenridge
Posted in skiing, tagged Breckenridge, skinning, snow sculpture on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was originally planning to snow camp Saturday night, but after our somewhat arduous day hiking Green Mountain, I drove up to Breckenridge for dinner at the brewery with my dad and brother. I did drag along my -20F sleeping bag and spent the night sleeping out on the deck. After a cup of coffee [...]
Green Mountain
Posted in hiking, tagged Flatirons, Green Mountain, Gregory Canyon, snow on February 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
With roughly two feet of snow in the last 36 hours I knew Tara and I were in for a bit more than we’d counted on when we stuck with our plan of hiking up Green Mountain. A few people had been out during and since the storm, but Gregory Canyon certainly wasn’t a well-packed [...]
