Colorado Trip Reports

Didn't know to look for one. That would have been cool!

 

Well that tells me you're not reading my texts then....

 

Never got any texts regarding this

 

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It was a pm on here!

 

Went to Cherokee Park today. Decided to check out North Fork of the Poudre.


Where it says "vehicles allowed beyond gate" is where I entered the trail. Where it says "you are here" is where I was when I took the pic
You can see Halligan Reservoir on the right side of the loop trail.




Where I came from


Stuff I drove up. Some parts of the trail actually had a bit of challenge, just enough to keep it interesting.


This is a rock formation, you can tell because of the way it is.


meh


looking for mtn lion and rattle snakes.


Thought this rock would look cool in my front yard.


Thought this would look cool as my front yard.

 

Little rough here.




topped out at 8495 feet. was about 90° out.


fork to the left.


Always on my left.


it was warm up there.


Left fork started like this.


ended like this.


Pic doesn't do it justice, it's basically a dried up waterfall. Nope.


hiked back up.


right fork started like this.


ended like this.

I hiked it more, forgot the camera. There are tracks that go deeper into a small canyon and wind through. It looked passable, there was gravel showing but just too much grass. So I backed out and went back to the start and took the right fork to Halligan Reservoir, and then to see if the loop was passable from the other direction.

 

funny lookin deer.


The reservoir.


just like the left side of the map shows in the beginning, the reservoir is the right fork, so I had to assume the left was the way back onto the loop, and maybe back to where I turned around.


Halligan Reservoir




Left the reservoir, took the left fork. Actually offered a small challenge in the wheeling dept. enough that I didn't grab any pics of course.
Ended up here about a mile into it.


there was another truck there, so I hiked down the other side to see.


Totally passable.


North Fork of the Poudre.


More road.


Better shot of the river. You can see where the road comes out at the bottom right, curves and goes along side the river. It disappears up into the upper left. Most likely why it's closed to vehicle traffic.


According to my gps, I turned around somewhere up in that valley on the left, couple miles back in there. Glad I turned around.


We hiked back out, drove home across Prairie Divide and through Crystal Lakes.
End of story.

 

^^Nice Brett! It's always fun to find the roads less traveled and new adventures.

 

Nice! Hit me up next time you get the itch to explore, hopefully I can make it!

 

Thanks!
Was my first time back there.
Arriving at the reservoir, I found myself somewhat annoyed that...
I didn't know one could drive basically right to the edge.
If I had known that I could drive to the edge, I would have had my canoe on top.
And lastly, I didn't even have a pole with me.

 

Will do, I would have mentioned it but knew you were camping and wanted to keep it a secret from Home Alone.

I tell you, there was one section that was real steep and loose, I slid down sideways, and came back up sideways. I was actually questioning being back there alone. But just at that particular spot. The rest is a cake walk. Never saw a single soul aside from the funny lookin deer. Lots of camp sites too if you can stand the heat.

 

Any firewood to be had if a guy WAS to camp out there?
You ever go to the sand hills at walden? Thinking about campin up there sometime.

 

There were downed trees here and there that looked flammable. More so on the LH fork from the main entry. Better camp sites too.

I've been to the sand hills before, jumped my Scout there a few times with great success
I don't think I could camp there though, way too much 2 stroke noise happening and I don't like sand in my anything.

 

Yeah it would have to be mid-week to avoid the masses and their shenanigans. The sand does make its way everywhere too, from what I remember of my quad-riding days.

 

went up to leadville for some camping and exploring...camped by the south mt elbert trailhead overlooking twin lakes




saturday we went up hagerman pass a little ways and did some snow bashing...turned around when we had to shoot back to camp and meet up with the second jeep in our party...had some fun up until then though...got to use our maxtrax a bunch...front locker works great! got to pull the jeep out with the FJ and winch it out with the Taco .....until my winch decided to stop working right (solenoid only works one way right now)











after meeting up with the second jeep at camp, we shot over to the Lost Canyon area and explored a bit until we were stopped by snow...made it quite a ways up...pretty cool area up there...made it up to the private mine area for reference...



sunday before heading back, we shot over to Halfmoon Creek/Gulch and made it all the way to the gate before Champion Mill. we only did the north branch...first water crossing was raging! almost flooded both jeeps...top crossing wasn't bad..maybe 3'?














and a teaser of a night shot i got...



i'll be posting more pics and video as i edit them in my build most likely

 

Sweet, looks like fun. Need to check out Halfmoon once the snow recedes.

 

We ran Liberty Trail down in Penrose on sunday. I thought there would be a lot of people there since it was fathers day. I was there the day before and there were about 8 rigs. But it was only us and some friends of ours that day. Was the first real test on our friends new build lovingly named Felix. They did run into some trouble at one point but we managed to get it diagnosed and fixed after a while thank goodness. Would have been a long day getting the truck out with no power haha. Battled some overheating issues too due to it being 100+...I thought we were going to die. And the bugs down there are crazy. I've never seen it so green.

Our trip in a nutshell:

 

My buddy drove Wheeler lakes (built 4runner, not a taco), still some snow. You can go a bout a mile past "the notch" or the "V".. we turned around early, but heard you can not yet get to bowling ball hill.

if you want to see some picts, nothing spectacular. Also did Browns pass/Breakneck pass (park county) in my taco.... all is good, big mud hole has dried up!

I'm staying at the bottom of mosquito pass.... still a lot of snow last time i rolled up the hill, you could make it until the trail crosses the first valley and starts up the other side, then its snowed in.

 

Drove the north fork of the Swan river in Breck yesterday... all is good till what appeared to be almost the end of the road (see picture). Didn't attempt the middle or any other, just out and back.

 

Triple post!!

you can drive the to mile 3 of Mosquito pass... thats about one mile of interesting driving and five of bumpy shit... Snow blocks the road at the North London Mine... and theres 3 parts of the road that is pure runoff, so its interesting.