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09-20-2016, 08:35 PM
Phil and I spent our first morning in Lake City scouting out a place to hold the NAPgA Rendy 2017. We found two really nice choices and I plan to head over to the FS/BLM office tomorrow to ask about them.
Finn and Sputnik had fun helping us explore these potential sites. In fact, Finn was so busy exploring that he didn't always want to get back in the truck afterwards. We had to drive away a few times before he would come running and leap in. There's no way it's too hard a leap for him--one time he didn't even bother to run around back to use the open tailgate. He just jumped in over the side. I had no idea he could leap so high, but he acted like it was nothing.
We took a very short but very steep little hike down to Whitmore Falls.
Here is one of the potential Rendy sites. The boys really liked it and it's close to two awesome trails!
One of them is the Alpine Gulch trail. It has a lot of water crossings. Finn always crossed these narrow log bridges with catlike agility. Sputnik usually preferred to walk through the water.
The water in this creek has a soft, milky blue tint that contrasts beautifully with the iron-red rocks. I loved the aspen leaves floating on the surface.
As we got further up the trail we got into a beautiful old aspen forest. The trees are at their absolute peak. The camera couldn't remotely capture their glowing golden splendor.
Finn and Sputnik had fun helping us explore these potential sites. In fact, Finn was so busy exploring that he didn't always want to get back in the truck afterwards. We had to drive away a few times before he would come running and leap in. There's no way it's too hard a leap for him--one time he didn't even bother to run around back to use the open tailgate. He just jumped in over the side. I had no idea he could leap so high, but he acted like it was nothing.
We took a very short but very steep little hike down to Whitmore Falls.
Here is one of the potential Rendy sites. The boys really liked it and it's close to two awesome trails!
One of them is the Alpine Gulch trail. It has a lot of water crossings. Finn always crossed these narrow log bridges with catlike agility. Sputnik usually preferred to walk through the water.
The water in this creek has a soft, milky blue tint that contrasts beautifully with the iron-red rocks. I loved the aspen leaves floating on the surface.
As we got further up the trail we got into a beautiful old aspen forest. The trees are at their absolute peak. The camera couldn't remotely capture their glowing golden splendor.