My best friend Andrew and I went hiking up in the Mt. Zirkel Wilderness Area of northern Colorado over 4th of July weekend 2002.
We hiked up to Bighorn Lake the first night from the Lone Pine Creek Trailhead on the east side of the Parks Range. The second day we hiked up to the Continental Divide and we stayed up there for two nights. We saw a huge cinnamon-colored black bear, weathered out a lightning/hail storm, climbed an unnamed peak (11,784') where I saw my first sky pilot flower, and managed to not get bit by too many mosquitos ;) |
