Week in the Rockies (comment on my trail choices please?)
Hey gang.
Me and a couple good friends who take two week-long wheeling vacations each year (Moab and Colorado) are making our way out next month. On the agenda:
Thanks, have a great weekend everyone. Your neighbor to the east, UD |
Red Cone and Radical Hill are so awesome. Last year I went on July 4th and while Webster pass was closed (due to a huge snow drift) at the switchbacks where it meets Red Cone, the Red Cone trail was open. Unbelievable. I'm not sure how much snow they got compared to last year, nor about how warm/cold it's been lately compared to last year, so you might want to check trail status depending on when your trip is...
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Minesweeper didn't make the new travel management plan in 2008...it's been closed since then.
Other than that, you've chosen some good trails :thumbsup: |
isuadam, what's the best way to run those trails in/around Red Cone? For instance, if we really want to do RC, do we try to come over Webster Pass first or Hall Valley or or or? Sequence? Thanks.
IntrepidXJ, you're kidding?! It's closed? That sucks. Okay, can you recommend a short "lunch hour" trail for our travel day from Dillon to Alamosa where we'll spend the night before tackling Blanca? |
Originally Posted by Under Dawg
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isuadam, what's the best way to run those trails in/around Red Cone? For instance, if we really want to do RC, do we try to come over Webster Pass first or Hall Valley or or or? Sequence? Thanks.
IntrepidXJ, you're kidding?! It's closed? That sucks. Okay, can you recommend a short "lunch hour" trail for our travel day from Dillon to Alamosa where we'll spend the night before tackling Blanca? Yep, Minesweeper has been closed for a few years now. I don't know of any very short trails on the way, but you will be passing by Wheeler Lake and Old Chinamans Gulch on that trip. OCG is a nice loop that didn't take me very long when I ran it, but you are going to need more than an hour :) After you pass through Buena Vista you can turn off and head up to St. Elmo and then take the Grizzly Lake trail. That's a short one with great scenery and a little challenge. Iron Chest is also next to Grizzly Lake.......just some ideas :) |
The game plan for the first couple of days is, Omaha to Dillon Day 1 and check into a hotel; Red Cone Day 2; Holy Cross Day 3; head south to Alamosa Day 4 (second hotel, obviously); Blanca Peak Day 5; back home on Day 6. So to answer your question, we're headed to the Red Cone area from Dillon.
Secondary question: with MS closed and Iron Chest being a possible Day 4 alternative before landing in Alamosa, do you think it's within striking distance from our southward journey on 285 or will that detour take us into the night by the time we make it to the hotel down south? |
Originally Posted by Under Dawg
(Post 1727496)
Hey gang.
Me and a couple good friends who take two week-long wheeling vacations each year (Moab and Colorado) are making our way out next month. On the agenda:
Thanks, have a great weekend everyone. Your neighbor to the east, UD You could easily add Wheeler Lake. Very pretty trail with some rock challenges. The lake at the top has hungry fish. |
Lefthand, are you saying to take Medano Pass when we're done with Blanca? I thought we had to take Blanca back down same way we came up, not a loop? Or are you saying take Medano on our travel day back to Omaha? Sorry, just needing clarification. Thank you guys, this thread is most helpful.
P.S. I ran Wheeler Lake last year, a favorite. |
Originally Posted by Under Dawg
(Post 1728643)
Lefthand, are you saying to take Medano Pass when we're done with Blanca? I thought we had to take Blanca back down same way we came up, not a loop? Or are you saying take Medano on our travel day back to Omaha? Sorry, just needing clarification. Thank you guys, this thread is most helpful.
P.S. I ran Wheeler Lake last year, a favorite. If you want extreme trails instead of heading up Phantom, you could head over to the Penrose trails--Independence, Patriot, etc. I haven't run these yet, but will in a few weeks. They are wicked. Stuff breaks on these trails. You probably already know about Traildamage.com where very good description of trails are listed. Another really pretty trail is Kingston Peak. This is a fun way to get form i-70 to peak to peak hiway. Also if you take peak to peak, then you can hit St. Vrain and Coney flats (lots of water on this one) as well as the T-33 plane crash. Good camping in these areas too. The trails aren't particularly difficult by Holy Cross standards, but they are fun and pretty. |
What's the fastest paved route from Dillon to the 285 approach to RC then? Can we take Montezuma Rd south from Keystone, bypass the "wrong way up" RC, approch from the south and then do Red Cone/Hall Valley/Radical Hill on the way back north?
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