Awesome - I work from home and can occasionally do some mid-day stuff. I'm planning to knock out quite a few 14ers this summer so weekends will be hit or miss, but would love to do some off-road camping type trips as well. There are a few 14ers that have some fun jeep trails to the upper trailheads and nice camping spots if there is any interest in combining the two possibly!
I'm up for anything. I'm curious to explore the Mt. Herman area. What lake is in the pic? And I'd also be curious how close we can drive to this:
But it wouldn't be a priority. If I recall, the road is blocked well before the site.
Here's some info on the above:
https://alandersen.co/2017/06/17/captain-sidney-harrison-plane-crash-site/
Yep, that is Lake Como road - it's pretty gnarly once you get to the bigger obstacles...there are 3 or 4 big ones if I remember correctly. I have always parked just below the first big obstacle and hiked the rest of the road, most of the vehicles I have seen make it all the way up to the lake are pretty heavily lifted/modded vehicles. Also, the consequences of rolling off a couple of the obstacles is pretty high and I believe there has been at least one death from someone rolling a vehicle down the hill while trying to navigate one of the sections.
Yeah, seems to me it was a 12 mile round trip when i hiked it years ago, but as I got close to the site, I did about 1/2 on a FS road before I hit a fence on the road blocking further travel. Like I said, not a priotity.
Been a number of years and <mumble><mumble> pounds since I've done the 14er thing. Maybe this is what I need to get back into it. This is me moving between the La Plata peaks.
This was taken in June, and that white stuff is snowy, flakey stuff!
Been a number of years and <mumble><mumble> pounds since I've done the 14er thing. Maybe this is what I need to get back into it. This is me moving between the La Plata peaks.
9:00a sounds good. See you then!
