On Saturday we went hiking at Greyrock Mountain, which is about 10 miles up the Poudre River Canyon.
View Larger MapI read about this on a local outdoors blog and it turned out to be a fantastic hike. We started along the river and climbed about 1400 feet over about 3 miles to the base of Greyrock itself.
It was cold, about 25 degrees or so, extremely windy, and there was still a good bit of snow around. We were skeptical that the trial up would be doable in these conditions but we were wrong. It wasn't so bad until we got to the very top. The top was beautiful, with a small frozen pond and a few trees growing up out of the rocks.
I was determined to get up to the very top because I wanted to see the view to the north and west. The wind up top had to be 60 or 70 miles an hour. We had crouch as we scrambled up the rocks. We were rewarded with quite a view
But we didn't stay long to enjoy it. The wind was too painful. So we made our way back down and took a different trail back to the car. We crossed several high meadows where we decided we would do some camping this summer. Not the best picture, but you get the idea:
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We had gotten a late start and spent a little too much time enjoying the views, so we made it back to the car just before darkness. This is a hike we'll be doing again and again. Here's what the GPS track looks like in Google Earth.
1 comment:
Wow, beautiful pics - but I have to ask myself, climbing to the top in 70 mph wind and 25 degrees? Are you insane? It's a fair question. what, do you work for a small non-profit or something?
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