Colorado B.S. Thread

It's was a blast!!! Fun bumpy fire road up and then a good hike up to the lakes. I'll post pictures tomorrow.

At majikman, I think I was talking about the wood fencing to make people go up over that first obstacle. I hope it's still there. That trail scares me in my truck, I ran it with some jeeps and a DCSB Tacoma with full armor last year and he used every bit of armor for sure

 

At Sean, yeah most of the people up there today were families. 2 lakes, 2 different views of the same waterfall, which is a big one. Drive that tundra up through the gate, multiple places to park so you don't have to walk so far. Our total round trip today was 3 miles, it has quite a bit of elevation gain but the views are amazing.

Here is the lower falls. The upper Continental Falls are much larger. Ill post pictures of Lower Mohawk lake later tonight or tomorrow.

 

Jace I sent a Pm your way but I don't think it sent for some reason

 

Thinking of a bike ride in the Morning don't know where yet. Need to get out f Denver for a half a day or so.

 

Here are some images taken by me while on the hike. Bunch of cool lakes up in that area, crystal lake is up the same trail head but shoots right just after the main gate at spruce creek trailhead parking lot. Upper and lower mohawk lakes are at the end of the bumpy fire road. At some point ill try and make it up above mohawk lakes to Pacific Tarn Lake. All these can be accesed by the crystal lakes trail head. When you drive through the first gate at what is the main parking lot just stay towards the left and head up past wheeler hiking trail head, park anywhere after that, or drive all the way up to the hiking entrance to mohawk lakes. I made it up no problem. Crystal lakes trail could be a bit more difficult.

http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=252









Enjoy!!!! The wheeler lake run looked awesome in the upcoming Colorado events thread!!!! I would have went but I'm a wuss. That last feature looks nutty

 

nice pics phil! i gotta get up there one of these days...

you using neutral density filters on those waterfall shots?

 

Thanks guys for the comments on the photos!!

Bob, I actually didnt have the gradated ND filter with me yesterday so I made do with a circular Polarizer which gave me the 3 stops needed. I was only able to get the shutter to be a 20th of a second though, but apparently that was slow enough to streak the water.

I cant stop looking at google earth and seeing all the lakes up in that area, i want to visit all of them!!

 

i hear ya...that's where our hikes have been this year so far...been to diamond lake and blue lake/mitchell lake in the indian peaks

lake hikes are good for the dogs and like the waterfall pics you posted, there are many scenic views along most lake hikes...

which the breck area was closer and didn't have 70 as a return! 285 from breck would take a long time still

 

Yeah, it was a drag coming back 70 yesterday. Im now looking into trying to summit pacific peak and get a view of pacific tarn lake, which after researching is the highest named lake in the US. Looks like a fun hike for sure!!!

I wish i could bring our dog on hikes, she is a bit to nutty and would probably run away off leash. I would end up summitting a lot quicker if she was with us though as she would be pulling me up the mountain

 

sounds like an interesting hike...always like those hikes to cool spots like that

 

doesn't really look like an easy way to get there either...

 

sean this is from jace...

 

yeah, thats what im finding out. Its pretty craggy all the way around the rim of mohawk lakes. Also zooming in on Google earth you cant see any trail that is broken on the loose rock so you would be basically walking blind unless you have a GPS. which i dont anymore sold that sucker a while ago