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Camelback Wilderness Study Area

[05|30|16]

This one is a bit of a mystery. This is why I need to write my blog right after each hike! I mean I know that Kelli and I did not make it to the trailhead. I’m pretty sure we did a lot of driving in the desert, where all the roads started looking the same, and at some point we decided to just get out and just start hiking on one of the dirt roads. There were a bunch of 4-wheelers out there. It was a bunch of BLM land. And with all my googling I cannot for the life of me find out what hike we had intended to do. 

My guess is this Roubideaux Canyon hike, but apparently you get to it through Delta county, and for a fact I remember we started off west of town on spring creek road and didn’t have to drive too far before we got there. 

Descriptive article about the hike but I can’t seem to find trailhead directions 

Interesting article about the area switching from wilderness study area status to BLM status 

But then I also am really thinking that it might have been the Montrose part of the Tabeguache trail, or that that was at least what we were aiming for. 

I don’t recall the actual hike being overly exciting. Maybe I was worried I just didn’t know where we were. I remember arguing with Kelli about the town we could see--if it was Montrose or Olathe. Pretty sure we decided it was Olathe. I remember not being able to wrap my head around that lol. Nice views of the Black Canyon. Lots of cacti in bloom! I remember finding it amazing that more explorable wilderness was again, just 15 minutes away from Montrose! Kelli and I talked about maybe camping there at some point, but that never happened. 

Rico in the Fall

Rico, Colorado

The quaint old mining town of Rico in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado.

Love to draw while traveling 😍

Find directions for this hike here.

Mystic Falls by Guy Schmickle on Flickr.

This seldom visited waterfall can be found in the San Juan Mountains near Telluride, Colorado. I visited these falls in the springtime as it sees rather low water levels later in the summer.

Workout For Daily Life

San Juan Mountains, Colorado - by Ryan Dyar

Lovely day for a drive. ☀️ #montroselifestyle #montroseco (at Montrose, Colorado)

sick day

decided to take a sick day today. woke up feeling pretty nauseous and then just wasn’t feeling attitudably appropriate to have 7 individual therapy sessions. so i called in. it was a good decision. i really honestly didn’t want to do shit. i was going to just sleep all day. but my dog wasn’t going to let me!

we decided to head out to cerro summit cerro summit has been one of our winter snowshoe staples so I was really unsure as to what the conditions were. 

they were muddy! really muddy. we went along the open meadow trail and glade (my dog) was not really having it so we turned around. instead, we just ran along the road! it was super beautiful. great views. nice and dry despite two or three patches of snow (which glade absolutely loved). we didn’t really go too far on the road, probably about a mile and a half, and then we went back. it’s definitely somewhere i’d like to return and go farther. i may just want to check the legality of it though. there were no no trespassing signs except for the land on the left and right...i don’t know though, always good to be sure.