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 July 25, 2004 Today we are hiking the front end of segment 13. It is a fairly short day hike but has a tremendous elevation gain. After setting up the car shuttle, we begin a little after 10:00 A.M. We start at the North Cottonwood Trailhead at 9,400 feet. We cross Silver Creek and start […]

North Cottonwood Creek Road, CO Segment 13  North Cottonwood Creek Road to Chalk Creek “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” Steven Wright July 24, 2004 Since Segment 13 is over 22 miles we are going to do it over two days. Today will be a long day hike of 15.6 miles and […]

 Wurtz Ditch Road, CO Segment 9 Wurtz Ditch Road to Hagerman Pass Road “Walking takes longer than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed”  Edward Abbey July 4, 2004. We were up in Frisco with the kids for […]

“After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” ~George Macauley Trevelyan Twin Lakes Dam, CO Segment 11b – Twin Lakes Dam to Clear Creek Road  June 25, 2004 This week we are going to complete Segment 11. We are starting where we left off near Twin Lakes Dam and hiking the remainder to […]

 Herrington Creek, CO June 20, 2004 We get up, eat, and break camp. We are on our way at 9:00 A.M. We climb out of Herrington Creek drainage and soon come to an aspen lined meadow with a beautiful mountain view. It would make a great campsite, although it had no water. We stop to […]

 Rock Creek, CO June 19, 2004 We awake to a sunnier day and sleep in until it warms up a bit. After a hearty breakfast of snack bars, it is time to start packing up. We start out at 9:30 A.M. and cross Rock Creek. It is a steady climb back up over 11,000 feet. […]

 The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, so bring snacks and a magazine Hagerman Pass, CO Segment 10 – Hagerman Pass Road to Half Moon Creek June 18, 2004 Our first trip of the year and a backpack at that. Tim “Turf Toe” Trofholz has hurt his foot and won’t find out until July […]

“Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.” ~Author Unknown Gold Hill, CO Segment 7 – Gold Hill to Copper Mountain September 14, 2003   We originally planned to do this segment yesterday but the weather forecast was for rain with snow above 10,000 feet. So we waited a day […]

 Camp Hale Colorado, CO August 31, 2003 We took yesterday off as we had planned it as a day of rest and mountain relaxation. We were going to do the 2 miles or so we cut off at Highway 91 but it was pouring down rain so we will come back to it. Today, we […]

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-three today and we don’t know where the hell she is.” ~Ellen DeGeneres  Copper Mountain, CO Segment 8 – Copper Mountain to Wurtz Ditch Road What happened to Segment 7, you ask? Logistics played a part in our segment order again. As […]