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Cows at Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm
The Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm at Lyndon B Johnson State Park is an interesting place to visit while picking up the driving permit for LBJ ranch.
President Lyndon B Johnson Boyhood Home
A visit to Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park starts in Johnson City at the visitor center, followed President Johnson's Boyhood Home and the Johnson Settlement.
View at the End of the Trail
Between the Twin Canals in Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve in Louisiana with lots of views of the surrounding swamp. Only area open in the preserve.
Long Stretch of the Trail Underwater - Turn Around Point
Photos from Jean Lafitte NHP's Barataria Preserve Trails: Ring Levee, Wood Duck & Bayou Coquille. Bayous, flooded trails, boardwalks and swamp land.
Alligator Only a Few Feet from the Boardwalk
South of New Orleans the Barataria Preserve, part of Jean Lafitte National Historic Park, is a great place to get out of the city and see how the area looks naturally. These photos are from the nature trail by the visitor center. It is a short b...
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Entrance Sign
Davis Bayou is a part of Gulf Islands National Seashore in Mississippi. The trails in the park were short, with some sections running along roads.
The Highest Point Marker
Florida has the lowest state highest point in the United States, the 345 ft high Britton Hill. It's in northern Florida not far from Alabama. The top of the hill is flat with a few trails.
Cypress Tree Swamp from a Curve in the Road
Florida Caverns State Park also has swamps, rivers, campgrounds and trails. There is a place where the Chipola River goes underground and reappears a few hundred feet downstream.
Florida Caverns SP
Waterfalls, rapids and caves are not something you think about being in Florida, but all three are there. This post is about the cave system in Florida Caverns State Park in northern Florida, near the Alabama border. We will post about the highest...
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Dunns Creek SP Pond
The quiet side of a lesser known Florida state park has some nice easy trails for biking and hiking. Dunns Creek State Park's Blue Pond area is a good place to get out into nature.
Manatees in Blue Spring Run
Blue Spring State Park near Orange City, Florida is known for manatees coming into Blue Spring Run during the winter due to its warm 72 degree water. The spring run is a slow moving body of water connecting the spring or boil to the St. Johns Rive...
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Pitcher Plant
Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants that attract bugs onto the rim of the pitcher where they slip inside are trapped. Big Thicket has a few areas with them. These are on the Sundew Trail in the Hickory Creek Unit.
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Wetlands Along Kirby Nature Trail
Big Thicket National Preserve is north of Beaumont in eastern Texas near Louisiana. It a collection of areas rather than a large contiguous park like most NPS areas. It is mainly around creeks and wetlands. This area is a little east of the main v...
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This video is from two hikes in Big Thicket National Preserve north of Beaumont Texas. The first is in the Turkey Creek area starting on the Kirby Nature Trail the going north along the creek to the Sandhill Loop. Little changes in elevation made ...
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Splashing Over the Rocks
Blowing Rocks is a nature preserve with a unique feature on the Florida east coast which is mostly sand beaches. A short stretch of the beach is rocky and the waves have worn holes and cracks in the rocks. When wave hit them, the water blows throu...
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The Wave is Shooting Through a Small Hole in the Rock
I've posted a couple times about Bowing Rocks before. This is from a January 2024 trip there. This was close to high tide, but not one of the bigger ones. The best time to go is during a full or new moon at high tide. Check a tide chart to see whe...
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Lassen Volcanic National Park's Warner Valley has three thermal areas which are all in this video. This area of the park has fumaroles, geysers, mud pots and hot springs. 
Front of Main House
Thunder Mountain Monument is just off I-80 in Nevada. The buildings are made of artifacts and other items found in the nearby desert held together with concrete.
The Halpatiokee trail system near the South Fork of the St. Lucie River has a directional set of mountain bike trails that form a loop. There a few spots where some trails can be skipped. It is mostly flat, but there's a few hills and some tight p...
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Camp Murphy is one of Florida's best trail systems for jumps, drops, berms and other tech. It also has sand pits, palmetto roots and rock gardens climbs. 
Bunker Hill is the black diamond trail near the trailhead. It's got rock gardens, drops, jump and other techy spots. The hardest thing on this trail is getting enough speed to hit the features. There isn't much vertical to get speed around here.Full Post
Hare Trail is a green trail that takes you back to the trailhead. It goes by Bunker Hill trail which is where this video stops.
Trail Links: Trailforks MTB Project
This video has two short trails sandwiching a longer one. Eight Tenths is a twist blue trail between Prickly Pear and Silo trails. There is an option to use a short cut between the two to skip it. One climbing section is sped up. The one cut early...
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Fire Ring has jumps like the other trails in Camp Murphy, but also has a long skinny and rock climb to keep things interesting. Camp Murphy is the mountainb bike trail system in Jonathan Dickinson State Park..
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A drop, a boardwalk and a pond view on a short trail in the Camp Murphy trail system of Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
Trail Links: Trailforks MTB Project
These are two trails a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. There's a few techy features...and some sand pits. Palmetto ends in a skills area with some skinnys.
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Big Burn is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trail system in Jonathan Dickinson Florida State Park. It starts out with a log ride and a jump. It has more jumps and berm turns. The trail also has a couple of sandy climbs that are sped up in the vide...
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Doe is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
Trail Links: Trailforks MTB Project
Root Loop is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. This used to be a harder black trail due to the palmetto bush roots crossing the trail. They are more buried by the sand now and not as hard as they used to be.<...
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Osprey is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Is this really a blue trail? Felt more like a green. Does anyoe see a trail on the right? I missed a optional side black trail.
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Middle Ridge is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. There's berm turns, doubles and table top jumps.
Trail Links: Trailforks MTB Project
This is the green entrance trail for the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Everyone rides this trail to start unless they are going directly to Bunker Hill. With about 25 ft of vertical change, it's a pretty flat trail. To get m...
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The Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The system has several downhill flow trails ranging from green to black. They has sweet berms, nice jumps and fun rocks. They are not too long so you could do a few laps on them in day.<...
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This is an intermediate downhill flow trail in the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has sweet berms, nice jumps and fun rocks. It starts at the same trail junction as Lucky 13, which also runs into Bluejay so a run down ...
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This is a short intermediate downhill flow trail in the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It splits off and rejoins the Nighthawk green downhill trail. The video is from the start to the bottom of the downhill so beginning a...
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This is a downhill flow trail int the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has nice berms and several styles of jumps on this trail including optional gap jumps. It was not hard to follow even with all the leaves. It runs in...
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The Fossil Flats trail is called the birthplace of Arkansas Mountain Biking in 1989. That is the loop that you start and end on. This ride also included Sawmill Loop, All You Can Eat, Racer's Hill, We Can Take, Sparky and Orville. Devil's Den Stat...
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We Can Take It is a cross-country trail in Devils Den Arkansas State Park. It goes along the side of a ridge above other trails. There are lots of spots where you are biking along a rock wall on one side of the trail. Theres also a creek crossing ...
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This is the downhill half of the Philips Ridge & Canyon Loop which is near Teton Pass in Wyoming. The start has some of the connector trails between Philips Ridge and Philips Canyon trails. The climb up was a good workout, but the downhill was wor...
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The Slaughter Pen trail system has tons of fun trails in Bentonville, Arkansas. Many are directional with both flow and tech downhill trails. Walmart has donated a lot of money to the trails in Bentonville so theres lots of fun bridges and other f...
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Dragon Scales shares a start with Loam Wolf from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. I rode Loam Wolf as well, but I didn't get video of it.
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- MTB Project
Lombard is the climbing trail to return to the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. Since this is a climb, the video is a time-lapse. Near the top there is a detour due to trail work.
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Wildfire is a short beginner downhill flow trail starting from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas.
This is from my first trip to Bentonville and all the videos in this set are my first time down the trail...
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Catapult is an intermediate downhill flow trail starting from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. It has lots of wood bridges going over the other trails that also start from the castle. You don't have to get air...
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Schroen Train is a downhill flow trail in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. It has berms, wood bridges and a rocky tech section. This video is showing the downhill part. There's another part that is the climb up to a juncti...
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This is a full trail video of Tech Gnar in the Slaughter Pen trails. It starts at the Tech Hub just north of the Flow Hub. It's a black trail with a couple of wood features.
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This is a full trail video of Walter's Whistler in the Slaughter Pen trails. It starts at the Tech Hub just north of the Flow Hub. It's a green trail with some berms that's good as a warmup and lets you see some of the other trails coming down fro...
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These three trails start at the Flow Hub in the Slaughter Pen Trail system. They are on the south side in the phase 3 area. All three are short, taking about a minute each to ride down. The first one, Boo Boo, is full of berms and small jumps. The...
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Coler MTB Preserve has a mix of levels and types of trails. On the north side there's a few downhill trails starting from The Hub which are the ones at the start of the video. Then I made my way to the other side of the preserve to Thunder Dome du...
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Thunder Dome Trail
Thunder Dome is a dual slalom race track in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is on the opposite side of the park from the other trail videos from this trip.
Trail Link: Trailforks
Music: Motion Array - Power Up
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Fire Line is a blue flow trail with lots of jumps that starts at the hub in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is the last of 5 videos I recorded when starting from the hub. It was my first time riding all of them.
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Rock Solid is a double black tech trail in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This video shows most of the trail; the end of the trail was wet and slippery this day. 
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This is a full trail video, but it's been sped up (aka I had the Gopro on the wrong mode). I wish I could bike that fast. I decided to make a video of it anyway and mix it with some short funny video music.
Rock Soft is a tech trail that...
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Rock Salad is a tech trail that starts on the climbing trail (Pedal Assist) up to the hub in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is a full trail video, but I did cut out a couple spots where my tires slipped on wet rocks and I stopped.
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Cease and Desist Trail Vdeo
Cease and Desist is a jump trail starting at the Coler Preserve Mountain Bike Preserve Hub. This is one of many videos from a trip to Bentonville, Arkansas.
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This video is on the trails across the Columbia River from Golden, British Columbia. This is area has a mix of trails with jump trails and one where you can look down on the Columbia River.
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This is the same video as the Fernie Bike Park Highlights, except without the music, just raw audio.
I got an afternoon ticket at Fernie Bike Park and got five runs in. The lift they use for the bike park is a slow fixed grip lift. It was ...
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Fernie has a variety of trails. This video show a several different trails I was able to ride on an afternoon lift ticket.
Naturita Ridge
Desert riding going up to a ridge between two valleys in Colorado. This is actually a route of several doubletrack trails and roads, even though it shows as a single trail on Trailforks, that are also open to atvs and dirt bikes. There wasn't any ...
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Spin Cycle Trail
Spin Cycle is fun twisty downhill trail near Park City, Utah. Its grand finale is in a gully with big banked turns and creek crossings. In the gully section, there are a few spots where work was being finished up and a couple of downed trees. I le...
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Winding Snake, Ucluelet, BC
citxaa iyii (Jit-hwah Hy-eee) transalted as Winding Snake is another downhill flow trail at the base of Mt. Ozzard. It is on Vancouver Island near the town of Ucluelet, BC and Pacific Rim National Park. Like citkaaatas (Rolling Downhill) next to i...
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Rolling Downhill, Ucluelet, BC
citkaaatas (sitk-augh-a-tus) transalted as Rolling Downhill is a downhill flow trail with jumps. It is on Vancouver Island near the town of Ucluelet, BC and Pacific Rim National Park. It's a newer trail than was opened last year. It's a short trai...
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Bamm Bamm Trail
Bamm Bamm is a short black diamond downhill trail with jumps, small drops and wood features in north of La Grande, OR. It's good for a quick lap or two.
View going down the railway. The water in the view is the start of the Ohio River.
View from an eastbound Amtrak California Zephyr going into the Moffat Tunnel in Colorado. This video was taken from a roomette (you can see a temperature control in the window reflection).
Sound: Actual sound
View from an eastbound Amtrak California Zephyr going into the Moffat Tunnel in Colorado. This video was taken from a roomette (you can see a temperature control in the window reflection).
Views of the Colorado River in Gore and Byers Canyons from an eastbound Amtrak California Zephyr. Sorry about the haze and spots, Amtrak needs to clean their windows.
Music: Adventures in Adventureland by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<...
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This is the end of the Dirty Harry Trail at Jackson Hole. After crossing other trails, it goes over a smooth and steep wood feature into some chunky rocks. This is one of the new trails that opened with the bike park expansion in 2021.
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Video of Slate Creek mountain bike trail in the western Uintas along Mirror Lake Hwy in the first year it was open. It is a smooth climb followed by a fun techy downhill.
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Scenic country road ride in Summit County Utah. The ride started in Coalville, Utah on a side road before turning on Chalk Creek Road. I took it up into Wyoming and back. Most of this video is from the downhill riding back half. This ride is bette...
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This is the downhill half of the Philips Ridge & Canyon Loop which is near Teton Pass in Wyoming. The start has some of the connector trails between Philips Ridge and Philips Canyon trails. Philips Canyon trail is almost all downhill. The climb up wa... 
Ant Farm
Ant Farm trail was rebuilt in 2018. It is one of four downhill flow trails in Bob's Basin. The rebuilt improved the flow and little drops and side hits.
Trail Link: https://www.trailforks.com/trails/ant-farm/
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The Dropout trail was rebuilt in 2019, a year before this video. It is one of four downhill flow trails in Bob's Basin. The rebuild improved the flow and added doubles.
Music: Birth of a Hero, https://www.bensound.com (Creative Commons L...
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Flume Trail
Most of this ride was on the Flume Trail with the upper section on Wild Iris loop. There was a mix a stuff on the ride, smooth trail, rock gardens, steep downhills and lots of views of the river. The GoPro on top of my helmet hit a overhanging tre...
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Highlights of my ride on the double black Captain Ahab trail in Fall 2019. It's one of the best techy trails in Moab.
This is an older video not published here before. It was take using a Mero 6 which explains the jerkyness not in my newer videos.
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BYOB is a downhill trail off the RTS loop with berms and jumps if you know what to look for. In one spot the trail splits into three with two rock roll options. 
OMH is downhill trail in the Lower Utah Olympic Park area that was built in 2018. 
Full trail video of Broadway Flow Trail in Anthony Lakes Ski Area, Oregon. The trail was open, but still had some work going on the bottom of the trail. 
Ridgeway Has Some Nice Views of the Nearby San Juans
This is the last of the three articles I wrote for the website Trazzler which is no longer. It's not a ride or hike, just a stop we made on a rest day between climbing 14ers. Photos are from a trip in 2009For most, the town of Ridgeway is wher...
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Mud Lake
This is the second of three articles I wrote for the website Trazzler which disappeared a few years ago. Photos are from a ride in 2009Head north from Nederland on the Peak-to-Peak highway and you will see a sign for Caribou Ranch Open Space. ...
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The Vineyards at Stone Cottage Cellars
In the West Elk Wine Region of Colorado, by Paonia there are several small wineries. During this visit we talked with owners and sampled the wines.
Big Cottonwood Creek
A Scenic Bike Ride at the Mouth of the Canyon.The upper end of this trail is at the Park and Ride at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon. It's great if you want to do an easy bike after skiing or snowboarding all day at Brighton and Solitude in...
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Scout Lake
This hike is east of Park City in the Uinta Mountains. It is in a national forest area called Mirror Lake Highway Recreation Corridor. The road goes from Kamas, UT to Evanstan, WY and is a scenic byway. Unfortunately at this time you have to have ...
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Downtown Juneau at Night
Head up a mountain right off the boat! The Mt. Roberts Tram is by the cruise ship docks in downtown Juneau and takes passengers up 1,745 ft to the top of Mt. Roberts.
Inside of Iceberg Atlantis
At the foot of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska is a lake, called Mendenhall. We kayaked across the lake from a put-in near the outflow, up to the glacier itself.
The Eagle River
The Amalga Trail in Juneua, Alaska, goes by ponds as it follows the Eagle River toward the Eagle Glacier. There's sections of it that are on boardwalks.
Heintzleman Ridge
Thunder Mountain is not far from the shore and forms part of the once side of the Mendenhall Valley. There are two trails up the mountain which merge about half way up.
Blue Ice Cave
On the west side of the Mendenhall River, in Juneua, Alaska there is a trail that goes to the Mendenhall Glacier. It is considered the country's most accessible glacier.
Herbert Glacier
The Herbert Glacier trail is an easy 4.5 mile trail about 16 miles north of the Mendenhall Valley in Juneau Alaska. The trail is a compacted gravel trail which many people bike.
The Benjamin Trail
The Benjamin Trail is a trail I worked on last fall; one day of trail building and one day of old trail removal. It is an addition to another trail at Betasso Open Space near Boulder. It opened in May and I was able to get a chance to ride it. It ...
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Iceburgs Coming Off the Mendenhall Glacier
This hike starts at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor center and head up a valley. Some parts are rough and some parts a scenic walk through the Alaskan Rainforest.
Iceburgs in Mendenhall Lake
I am in Alaska for the summer so there will be posting some hikes from here. I'll still post some past trips, but with all the hikes and rides I'm doing here, there may not be many.
Mt. Yale
Mt. Yale, about 10 miles west of Buena Vista, Colorado is 14,196. This 9.5 mile hike was in October and snow had already fallen on the peak.
Crater Lake #2 North
This hike was to the same location as the last one in my last blog. The difference was, there was no snow, so we stayed on the trail and after the middle lakes we went up and did not visit the first one. We started on South Boulder Creek Trail and...
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Crater Lake #2 South
Crater Lakes Snowshoeing (March 2007) November 14th 2010 10:49PMThe Crater Lakes are in the James Peak Wilderness, southwest of Boulder. The closest trailhead is at the East Portal of Moffat Tunnel (usually called just East Portal). This area...
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Arrowhead Lake (or is it Right Turn Arrow Lake)<br>Love Lake is just to the right and above the point of the arrow.
After Inkwell Lake there was some more above treeline rock scrambling. Two of us headed over towards Doughnut Lake, which is in a separate drainage from the other until below Arrowhead Lake. We found a great spot which overlooked both Doughnut Lak...
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Inkwell Lake
Rocky Mountain National Park has a road called the Trail Ridge Road, which goes above treeline for several miles. At its Forest Canyon Overlook, you can see several lakes in a side canyon. Many people stop and stare at them, but they get few visit...
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South Arapaho Peak
This trail starts from the Rainbow Lakes campground, crosses into the Indian Peaks Wilderness and quickly climbs above treeline. The trail goes along the border of a restricted area where part of Boulder's water supply comes from.
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Elephant's Head
Last weekend went hiking around Long Lake in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. My main camera was having problems, so I had my old camera with me and the pics are not as sharp as usual. After about a half mile I was really wishing for my other camera. ...
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Chasm Lake sits at the base of the face of Longs Peak and is one of the most scenic lakes in the park. The lake is at 11,800 ft (just above treeline) and Longs Peak at 14,255 towers above it. We started from the Longs Peak trailhead on the east si...
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