The Colorado Trail – PMags.com https://pmags.com Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Mon, 04 Jan 2021 05:29:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pmags.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-fav-ico-160x160.jpg The Colorado Trail – PMags.com https://pmags.com 32 32 81463906 The Colorado Trail: An overview https://pmags.com/the-colorado-trail-an-overview https://pmags.com/the-colorado-trail-an-overview#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:19:21 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=10307 The Colorado Trail: An overview

The Power Point presentation about The Colorado Trail. Covers many of the basics for The Colorado Trail. May be viewed online; no additional software needed. Read More ...

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An ~10 mile or so hike on section two of the Colorado Trail with Cam Honan of "The Hiking Life". Read More ...

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Two mini-trip reports. One of an attempt to ski Mt. Toll and some trail work on The Colorado Trail

In early June, my buddy Mark and I made an attempt to ski Mt. Toll.  A classic spring ski near Boulder.

As when I did it three years ago, I was up at oh-god-early and we drove up to the Brainard Lake Trailhead.

The skis were stowed on our packs and we biked up the Brainard Rd to the Mitchell Lake trailhead.

Skis were strapped on and off we went on the spring snow.

As we made our way to Blue Lake (at the cusp of treeline), we noticed that the divide look rather nasty above. The cold biting wind at the lake proved this to be true!

The views to the socked in divide were awesome, but perhaps not the best ski conditions above treeline.

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