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Post by cweston on Jul 12, 2016 8:17:18 GMT -8
What times of year were each of those trips? The pics in post 10 are from an early August trip. The pics in post 13 were in about the third week of July. The pics in post 25 were from 4th of July weekend.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Jul 12, 2016 8:29:45 GMT -8
I also like the Gore Range. Not quite as close to Denver, the Rawah Wilderness and Flat Tops also have good options for longer trips. The Sangre de Cristos are also quite gorgeous. Figure about 3 1/2 hours driving from Denver, but well worth it. Here's a good recourse for planning Gore Range Trips www.dillonrangerdistrict.com/hkg_rogs.htm
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Post by Lamebeaver on Jul 12, 2016 9:23:20 GMT -8
One Gore hike I've always wanted to do is to hike up the road (I use this term loosely) to Elliot Ridge, then down to Mirror or Flapjack lakes and eventually back to the car parked at Lower Cataract Lake. Relatively tame, and certainly less mileage and fewer days than the OP asked for.
In a couple weeks I plan on hiking to an un-named lake near upper Boulder lake N 39 42.760' W 106 14.014' to see if there any fish in it.
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beef
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Post by beef on Jul 13, 2016 6:50:17 GMT -8
What times of year were each of those trips? The pics in post 10 are from an early August trip. The pics in post 13 were in about the third week of July. The pics in post 25 were from 4th of July weekend. I'm thinking of going there instead of driving all the way down to Weminuche in a couple weeks. I'd have 5 trail days to kill. Some class 3 is fine with me - any different route recommendations, or just weaving around the stuff above? I'll have a cherokee with a 4" lift and gnarly tires at my disposal, so most rougher trailheads are probably fine.
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Post by cweston on Jul 13, 2016 7:28:03 GMT -8
If you want a high adventure trip, the route I described in posts 7-10 of this thread can't be beat. We did it in 6 days, but we camped two nights in Eagles Nest Cirque, so 5 should be doable. Being able to drive to the Brush Creek trailhead would save you 3 miles on the first and last days compared to our route.
Standard cautions apply--there's a gnarly bushwhack and a few steep class three segments with tricky route finding, and the whole route is a long way from help if you need it. In climbing out of the Eagle's Nest cirque and up to Dora Lake (if you exit that way), my advice is to get up onto the Dora lake plateau as far up the Black Creek Basin as possible. We dropped down basin a bit and then started climbing--which earned us a whole morning in class 3, SUV-sized-boulder hopping, route-finding hell.
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