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Beaver Mountain Trail

Beaver Mountain Trail

Posted on May 13, 2022May 15, 2022 by jim

We had planned on doing the Beaver Mountain Trail a month or two ago, but the road to the trailhead was gated due…

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Hike to Chasm Lake

Hike to Chasm Lake

Posted on May 7, 2022May 13, 2022 by jim

Chasm Lake is listed as a must-do classic Colorado hike, worthy of an early Saturday start. The hike starts at the extremely popular…

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Bear Lake to Bierstadt Lake

Bear Lake to Bierstadt Lake

Posted on March 12, 2022March 13, 2022 by jim

Bear Lake to Bierstadt Lake – when Colette is away, the kids must play. We picked through good snowshoe options, and Tom picked…

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Hallett Peak Otis Peak Flattop Mountain

Hallett Peak Otis Peak Flattop Mountain

Posted on March 2, 2022March 13, 2022 by jim

Hallett Peak smacks you right in the face every time you drive up Bear Lake Road to the Bear Lake/Glacier Gorge area. Rising…

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Storm Pass Snowshoe

Storm Pass Snowshoe

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 by jim

Storm Pass hasn’t been on my list, since we’ve already hiked to Estes Cone from the Long’s Peak Trailhead and there’s nothing else…

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Aspenglen Deer Mountain Loop

Aspenglen Deer Mountain Loop

Posted on January 15, 2022January 17, 2022 by jim

The Aspenglen Deer Mountain Loop started out on our hike list, but the the road to the campground is always closed in the…

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Snowshoeing Cub Lake Loop

Snowshoeing Cub Lake Loop

Posted on January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 by jim

The Cub Lake Loop Trail hasn’t been high on our list since there are so many other trails, but as we start to…

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Snowshoeing Bierstadt Moraine

Snowshoeing Bierstadt Moraine

Posted on January 9, 2022January 10, 2022 by jim

The Bierstadt Moraine has never been our list in all our time spent in RMNP. We drive past the trailhead constantly, without a…

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Longs Peak via the Keyhole Route

Longs Peak via the Keyhole Route

Posted on December 2, 2021December 8, 2021 by jim

Longs Peak – a fitting climb for my 14er halfway point! I was tossing around ideas to get #29 under my belt before…

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Hiking to Loch Vale

Hiking to Loch Vale

Posted on November 27, 2021November 28, 2021 by jim

Loch Vale, also known as The Loch is a perfect snapshot of why Rocky Mountain National Park is a National Park. A relatively…

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Glacier Gorge to Black Lake

Glacier Gorge to Black Lake

Posted on November 7, 2021November 20, 2021 by jim

Another Sunday to play in the Park – this time it’s Glacier Gorge up to Black Lake. This is the hike we were…

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Hiking Lily Mountain

Hiking Lily Mountain

Posted on November 6, 2021November 9, 2021 by jim

Lily Mountain makes a good also-ran, when you get a too-late start into the Park and can’t get a decent parking spot in…

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Forest Canyon Overlook

Forest Canyon Overlook

Posted on October 31, 2021November 3, 2021 by jim

A damp, drizzly day at home at 7,300 feet – so we headed into the Park to hike up to the Forest Canyon…

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Hiking Sky Pond

Hiking Sky Pond

Posted on March 3, 2021August 21, 2021 by jim

When the forecast calls for 52 degrees and sunshine, we must play hooky again! Back into Rocky Mountain National Park to bang out…

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Ypsilon Lake Snowshoeing

Ypsilon Lake Snowshoeing

Posted on January 18, 2021February 16, 2021 by jim

AllTrails lists the Ypsilon Trail hike as 9.2 miles, 2,496 feet of elevation gain, and a Medium difficulty rating. I concur with the…

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Hiking Chasm Falls

Hiking Chasm Falls

Posted on January 13, 2021January 14, 2021 by jim

With permission to play hooky on a Wednesday, we loaded up spikes and snowshoes and headed to the Park. Surprisingly enough, despite the…

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Climbing Estes Cone

Climbing Estes Cone

Posted on December 26, 2020January 8, 2021 by jim

Making use of yet another day of reduced crowds in Rocky Mountain National Park. Normally the Longs Peak trailhead parking lot is completely…

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Rocky Mountain Christmas

Rocky Mountain Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2020December 27, 2020 by jim

Since we love nontraditional holidays – why not a hike in the Park? We figured that crowds would be low, so we would…

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Rocky Mountain Lakes

Rocky Mountain Lakes

Posted on December 8, 2020December 31, 2020 by jim

Off-season means low crowds, might as well bang out some of the hikes you just can’t get to in the summer without hordes…

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Balanced Rock Hike

Balanced Rock Hike

Posted on December 6, 2020December 17, 2020 by jim

Although we’ve already done the first section of the Cow Creek Trail, we haven’t done the circuit up to Balanced Rock. While the…

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Gem Lake Hike

Gem Lake Hike

Posted on November 17, 2020December 9, 2020 by jim

The very nice thing about Rocky Mountain National Park being mostly closed – fewer tourists! Slowly as bits of the Park have reopened,…

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