Chris' Hikes – Page 2

Apex Park – Odd Day – Magic Mountain Trail – Paydirt Trail – Hardscrabble Trail – Rocker Trail – Enchanted Forest Trail – Poco Calle Trail – Apex Trail – Sluicebox Trail – Pick-N-Sledge – Grubstake Trail – Smelter Trail

August 13, 2021

This was another AllTrails discovery near our house that I had no idea existed. The even-day trail hike is quite pretty with the benefit of NO BIKES ALLOWED. I love this trail and it will go in my rotation of favorite local hikes. I did every side hike and this could have easily been shortened

Denver

Black Bear Trail

August 6, 2021

I found this trail years ago when I first starting hiking the Deer Creek Park area and have wanted to do it ever since. I could never get to it because I either wasn’t in town when it was open or not in shape enough. It’s a long hike and we dropped the leaf at

Denver

Apex Park Even Day Hike – Bypass to Apex Trails – Kinney Trail Run – Argos Trail – Pick-N-Sledge Trail – Grubstake Trail – Bonanza Trail

August 4, 2021

This was another AllTrails discovery near our house that I had no idea existed. The odd-day trail hike is mostly exposed for the first couple of miles, but the Grubsteak park of it is quite nice. However, I didn’t realize that this park switched between bikes and hikers on odd and even days, and I

Denver

Dakota Ridge Trail – Arthur Lakes Lookout – Red Rocks Trail – Bail Out – Zorro Trail

June 30, 2021

We live 15 minutes from this hike and I’ve always wondered what it looked like… Never again! You got the noise from I-70, 470, or both throughout the entire stretch; so I had to listen to podcasts the entire way to distract myself. The trail itself was pretty crappy with lots of steep, crooked areas

Denver, Easy Hikes

Mathew Winters Park – Red Rocks Trail – Morrison Slide Trail – Cherry Gulch – Village Ride – Village Walk – Dakota Ridge

June 28, 2021

This was a nice hike close to home, but very busy. Here are the stats: Distance = 6.27 mi Elevation Gain = 1,004 ft Time = 2:06:17 Avg Speed = 2.9 mph Min elevation = 6,797 ft Here are the pics: Here’s a Panorama made by Google Here’s the map

Denver

Summit Loop Trail – Green Mountain Trailhead – North Access Trail

June 24, 2021

I had to go back to the park to fill in the parts I missed the first time around, and the second time around when it was supposed to be a filler hike. Some of the trails weren’t marked, or closed, and I ended up getting forced out of the park into the neighborhood, unless

Denver

Narrow Point Trail – North Access Trail – Green Mountain Trailhead – McIntyre Gulch

June 22, 2021

This was supposed to be a filler hike to get a small section of trail that I had missed when I had hiked in this area before. It turned into an over 9 mile hike and I didn’t finish the parts I set out to because there was a steep little hill that I looked

Colorado, Denver, Uncategorized

Red Rocks Trail – Geologic Overlook Trail

June 10, 2021

This hike just felt like is was constantly going up, especially the endless staircase that is the Red Rocks Auditorium. I was surprised that there wasn’t much more elevation gain compared to my previous hike in Red Rocks. This is a good starter hike to get used to going up. Surprisingly there were a bunch

Denver, Easy Hikes

Mount Vernon Creek Trail – Trading Post Trail – Frog Rock Trail – Ship Rock to Amphitheatre – Will Call Trail

June 9, 2021

I know I’ve hiked Red Rocks before, but it wasn’t on my map of hikes, so I decided to go back in my attempt to get back into hiking shape for the year. The trail was pretty, but it was also pretty busy as well. I had to go through it twice to get my

California

South Lykken Trail – Palm Springs

May 9, 2021

We spent a few months in Palm Springs over the 2020/2021 winter season and this trailhead was a block away from where we were staying, so I planned to finish it at least once. However, we could tell that its a very popular trail by the number of cars that parked near it every day,