Hiking, Biking, Climbing, Floating, and other wild outdoor stuff.

[ToddG]

  As much as I love hearing, playing, and dancing to music, and getting my mind bent with applied sciences. I also love all things outdoors. Starting a thread for those who want to discuss, share, and make plans to do outdoor activities pre-festival. I thought about taking a morning off for a good hike or ride, but due to the awesomeness of everydays schedule, I'm doubting I can spend any time away from TP starting Thursday morning with my man crush mando god CT.
We will be bringing our MTN Bikes, and possibly a boat, of course hiking boots. What about yall.

[FaceOnMars]

If the lack of snow trend continues, things will become dire re: water and fire danger, but access to higher elevations will be easier than ever before.

[landshark]

As much as I love hearing, playing, and dancing to music, and getting my mind bent with applied sciences. I also love all things outdoors. Starting a thread for those who want to discuss, share, and make plans to do outdoor activities pre-festival. I thought about taking a morning off for a good hike or ride, but due to the awesomeness of everydays schedule, I'm doubting I can spend any time away from TP starting Thursday morning with my man crush mando god CT.
We will be bringing our MTN Bikes, and possibly a boat, of course hiking boots. What about yall.

  Hey don't forget your Fishin' Rod good casting opportunities all along the river. Many trails that are just a few hours and a good A.M workout.

[landshark]

Don't laugh. I want to golf. Not wild and would be a new to me. A guided Jeep tour. An Orvis Fly trip......lots to do and still have new to me adventures after many years.

[ToddG]

Don't laugh. I want to golf. Not wild and would be a new to me. A guided Jeep tour. An Orvis Fly trip......lots to do and still have new to me adventures after many years.

My wife seems to think she might like to golf. I've jeeped most the peaks around T-ride, its way fun, didn't have a guide though. I've never fly fished and would need some lessons. I really want to do the Via Ferrata.

 Listening to: Jeffrey Lewis-Its the Ones who've cracked that the light shines through

[landshark]

Don't laugh. I want to golf. Not wild and would be a new to me. A guided Jeep tour. An Orvis Fly trip......lots to do and still have new to me adventures after many years.

My wife seems to think she might like to golf. I've jeeped most the peaks around T-ride, its way fun, didn't have a guide though. I've never fly fished and would need some lessons. I really want to do the Via Ferrata.

Each year I extend my time in Tride and plan all kinds of things before hand, like a huge adventure.
But when I finally arrive all things Tride, I stretch out, feel the sun and the rain, laugh a lot, smile non stop, dance in the rain, chat up some, drink a little, eat well and time slips away into days and a morning hike gets in and a  few  dips in the river, drop a line in the river a time er two.....

All time and schedules and tasks all laid out become irrelevant and it feels so good to be UNACCOUNTABLE for just a few moments.

I am so flippin ready to rock it out. 

[illegalsmile]

Was just going to start a similar thread, so this is great!

This year I am hoping to come down a few days before the festival starts and set up home base at Lawson Hill as soon as it opens on Tuesday.  Would then plan on enjoying the outdoors Tuesday and Wednesday before the fest.  Any recommendations?  Is it simpler to use your vehicle the days before the festival begins (ie leaving and coming back with vehicle each day)?

Any day hiking / fishing / golfing recommendations?  Thanks!

[landshark]

Was just going to start a similar thread, so this is great!

This year I am hoping to come down a few days before the festival starts and set up home base at Lawson Hill as soon as it opens on Tuesday.  Would then plan on enjoying the outdoors Tuesday and Wednesday before the fest.  Any recommendations?  Is it simpler to use your vehicle the days before the festival begins (ie leaving and coming back with vehicle each day)?

Any day hiking / fishing / golfing recommendations?  Thanks!

The Bear Creek Trail is in town and takes aprox 2 hours and I would consider the hike an easy steady climb. My fav for the morning and more trails near by in town.

Fishing I drive out of town just a few and you can cast in the river in town. Not sharin my fishin hole or I would have to kill you after. LOL!

Climbing.  I have done some of these but not at fest time however i do remember  a few times where shawn did a climb in the morning and got back by 3-4 ish.
ncompahgre Peak, for instance, which at a height of 14,309 feet is the highest peak in the San Juans, is a strenuous but doable hike in the Uncompahgre Wilderness that doesn't require an extensive knowledge of technical climbing. As a result, the trail to the top is one of the most heavily used in the Forest, which puts the delicate ecosystem above the timberline at considerable risk. If you're looking for the solitude that comes with leaving the rest of the world down below, you won't usually find it here.
Neighboring Matterhorn Peak (13,590 feet) is another easy summit that sees frequent use. For more technical but less crowded climbs in this region, experienced cragsmen go for Coxcomb (13,656 feet), whose rooster-crest summit ridge requires ropes, or the Wetterhorn (14,015 feet), where the easiest summit approach is a Class 3.
Perhaps the most well-known peak in the Forest, along with Uncompahgre, is majestic Mount Sneffels (14,150 feet), crown of the Mount Sneffels Wilderness Area. Perhaps because it is visible from miles around, Mount Sneffels is one of the Uncompahgre's most popular destinations, attracting weekend crowds all intent on scrambling up the scree to an unspeakably awe-inspiring panorama of the San Juans and the Uncompahgre Plateau. Other summits in the same section of range include Dallas Peak (13,809 feet) and Teakettle Mountain (13,819 feet), considered by many to be some of the most difficult climbs in Colorado.
One ascent that's daunted Grizzly Adams types for years is Lizard Head (13,113 feet), which maxes out at a 5.8 before you reach the top. Lying in the Lizard Head Wilderness at the southern edge of the Forest, the peak can claim two fourteeners as neighbors. Both Mount Wilson (14,246) and El Diente Peak (14,159) lie outside the official boundaries of the Uncompahgre National Forest but, like Lizard Head, are a part of the San Miguel section of the San Juans. Rugged and high, these two bad boys are connected by a nearly mile-long ridge that makes it possible to summit both in the same trip.
The peaks in the Forest's wilderness areas, while undoubtedly scraping the most sky, are not the only climbing opportunities in the Uncompahgre. South along Colorado 145, several Class 5 rock-climbing venues around Telluride have been scouted, among them Crooked Canyon, Ames Wall, and Ophir Wall. Just outside the southeast border of the Forest, a cluster of five thirteeners offer a variety of climbing possibilities around the Ice Lake Basin. Fuller Peak (13,761 feet), Vermillion Peak (13,894 feet), and Golden Horn (13,780 feet) are all day-hike summits that aren't too difficult. Pilot Knob (13,738 feet) and U.S. Grant Peak (13,767 feet) are major technical climbs for experienced summiteers only.

Lizard Head Pass is full of Wild Flowers and it will take your breath away.

Golf. Checking that out now and all I know is they have some beautiful Golf opportunity.  I am getting excited.

You are gonna have a blast my friend. Just hang lose and what you do not get to do this year brings you back the next year. 4 days of insanely great music toped off with all this extra goodness. Man,,,just sayin.

[ToddG]

Last year we did Lizzard head, and hiked around Wilson Meadows, which was insanely beautiful. Problem was there was so much snow melt happening the mountain side was basically a giant waterslide, and crossing the creeks and run-off drainages was near impossible, so we never made it passed the beginnings of snow line. We biked the galloping goose trail quite a bit too.

 Listening to: Steppenwolf live at Matrix 1969

[landshark]

Last year we did Lizzard head, and hiked around Wilson Meadows, which was insanely beautiful. Problem was there was so much snow melt happening the mountain side was basically a giant waterslide, and crossing the creeks and run-off drainages was near impossible, so we never made it passed the beginnings of snow line. We biked the galloping goose trail quite a bit too.

Yeah I hear you on that one. Spring and runoff effects fishing as well. The river flows much to fast in June to really catch fish.

[SC_Chris]

Hello all - I'm from South Carolina and will be heading to festival Thursday and Friday. My friends and I were hoping to do some backpacking for Sat-Tues in the San Juans. Do you think there will too much snow on the hiking trails/mountains to safely and reliably hike at high altitudes for few days?

[ToddG]

Chris, Of course conditions are always going to be unique year to year, but I'd guess above 11k feet you'll probably encounter some amount of snow conditions, especially on north facing slopes. Probably nothing that would be risky, but could require some post holing. I'm no expert on the San Juan trail systems, but I'd bet by June there will have been plenty of foot traffic on the main trails. Probably any trails within the tree line will be totally passable. The biggest problems will be trails that require crossing drainages that have to be waded, and that would be the only danger I can imagine.

[FaceOnMars]

Was just going to start a similar thread, so this is great!

This year I am hoping to come down a few days before the festival starts and set up home base at Lawson Hill as soon as it opens on Tuesday.  Would then plan on enjoying the outdoors Tuesday and Wednesday before the fest.  Any recommendations?  Is it simpler to use your vehicle the days before the festival begins (ie leaving and coming back with vehicle each day)?

Any day hiking / fishing / golfing recommendations?  Thanks!

The Bear Creek Trail is in town and takes aprox 2 hours and I would consider the hike an easy steady climb. My fav for the morning and more trails near by in town.

Fishing I drive out of town just a few and you can cast in the river in town. Not sharin my fishin hole or I would have to kill you after. LOL!

Climbing.  I have done some of these but not at fest time however i do remember  a few times where shawn did a climb in the morning and got back by 3-4 ish.
ncompahgre Peak, for instance, which at a height of 14,309 feet is the highest peak in the San Juans, is a strenuous but doable hike in the Uncompahgre Wilderness that doesn't require an extensive knowledge of technical climbing. As a result, the trail to the top is one of the most heavily used in the Forest, which puts the delicate ecosystem above the timberline at considerable risk. If you're looking for the solitude that comes with leaving the rest of the world down below, you won't usually find it here.
Neighboring Matterhorn Peak (13,590 feet) is another easy summit that sees frequent use. For more technical but less crowded climbs in this region, experienced cragsmen go for Coxcomb (13,656 feet), whose rooster-crest summit ridge requires ropes, or the Wetterhorn (14,015 feet), where the easiest summit approach is a Class 3.
Perhaps the most well-known peak in the Forest, along with Uncompahgre, is majestic Mount Sneffels (14,150 feet), crown of the Mount Sneffels Wilderness Area. Perhaps because it is visible from miles around, Mount Sneffels is one of the Uncompahgre's most popular destinations, attracting weekend crowds all intent on scrambling up the scree to an unspeakably awe-inspiring panorama of the San Juans and the Uncompahgre Plateau. Other summits in the same section of range include Dallas Peak (13,809 feet) and Teakettle Mountain (13,819 feet), considered by many to be some of the most difficult climbs in Colorado.
One ascent that's daunted Grizzly Adams types for years is Lizard Head (13,113 feet), which maxes out at a 5.8 before you reach the top. Lying in the Lizard Head Wilderness at the southern edge of the Forest, the peak can claim two fourteeners as neighbors. Both Mount Wilson (14,246) and El Diente Peak (14,159) lie outside the official boundaries of the Uncompahgre National Forest but, like Lizard Head, are a part of the San Miguel section of the San Juans. Rugged and high, these two bad boys are connected by a nearly mile-long ridge that makes it possible to summit both in the same trip.
The peaks in the Forest's wilderness areas, while undoubtedly scraping the most sky, are not the only climbing opportunities in the Uncompahgre. South along Colorado 145, several Class 5 rock-climbing venues around Telluride have been scouted, among them Crooked Canyon, Ames Wall, and Ophir Wall. Just outside the southeast border of the Forest, a cluster of five thirteeners offer a variety of climbing possibilities around the Ice Lake Basin. Fuller Peak (13,761 feet), Vermillion Peak (13,894 feet), and Golden Horn (13,780 feet) are all day-hike summits that aren't too difficult. Pilot Knob (13,738 feet) and U.S. Grant Peak (13,767 feet) are major technical climbs for experienced summiteers only.

Lizard Head Pass is full of Wild Flowers and it will take your breath away.

Golf. Checking that out now and all I know is they have some beautiful Golf opportunity.  I am getting excited.

You are gonna have a blast my friend. Just hang lose and what you do not get to do this year brings you back the next year. 4 days of insanely great music toped off with all this extra goodness. Man,,,just sayin.

Where does one get the Cliff Notes' version   ?

[landshark]

Was just going to start a similar thread, so this is great!

This year I am hoping to come down a few days before the festival starts and set up home base at Lawson Hill as soon as it opens on Tuesday.  Would then plan on enjoying the outdoors Tuesday and Wednesday before the fest.  Any recommendations?  Is it simpler to use your vehicle the days before the festival begins (ie leaving and coming back with vehicle each day)?

Any day hiking / fishing / golfing recommendations?  Thanks!

The Bear Creek Trail is in town and takes aprox 2 hours and I would consider the hike an easy steady climb. My fav for the morning and more trails near by in town.

Fishing I drive out of town just a few and you can cast in the river in town. Not sharin my fishin hole or I would have to kill you after. LOL!

Climbing.  I have done some of these but not at fest time however i do remember  a few times where shawn did a climb in the morning and got back by 3-4 ish.
ncompahgre Peak, for instance, which at a height of 14,309 feet is the highest peak in the San Juans, is a strenuous but doable hike in the Uncompahgre Wilderness that doesn't require an extensive knowledge of technical climbing. As a result, the trail to the top is one of the most heavily used in the Forest, which puts the delicate ecosystem above the timberline at considerable risk. If you're looking for the solitude that comes with leaving the rest of the world down below, you won't usually find it here.
Neighboring Matterhorn Peak (13,590 feet) is another easy summit that sees frequent use. For more technical but less crowded climbs in this region, experienced cragsmen go for Coxcomb (13,656 feet), whose rooster-crest summit ridge requires ropes, or the Wetterhorn (14,015 feet), where the easiest summit approach is a Class 3.
Perhaps the most well-known peak in the Forest, along with Uncompahgre, is majestic Mount Sneffels (14,150 feet), crown of the Mount Sneffels Wilderness Area. Perhaps because it is visible from miles around, Mount Sneffels is one of the Uncompahgre's most popular destinations, attracting weekend crowds all intent on scrambling up the scree to an unspeakably awe-inspiring panorama of the San Juans and the Uncompahgre Plateau. Other summits in the same section of range include Dallas Peak (13,809 feet) and Teakettle Mountain (13,819 feet), considered by many to be some of the most difficult climbs in Colorado.
One ascent that's daunted Grizzly Adams types for years is Lizard Head (13,113 feet), which maxes out at a 5.8 before you reach the top. Lying in the Lizard Head Wilderness at the southern edge of the Forest, the peak can claim two fourteeners as neighbors. Both Mount Wilson (14,246) and El Diente Peak (14,159) lie outside the official boundaries of the Uncompahgre National Forest but, like Lizard Head, are a part of the San Miguel section of the San Juans. Rugged and high, these two bad boys are connected by a nearly mile-long ridge that makes it possible to summit both in the same trip.
The peaks in the Forest's wilderness areas, while undoubtedly scraping the most sky, are not the only climbing opportunities in the Uncompahgre. South along Colorado 145, several Class 5 rock-climbing venues around Telluride have been scouted, among them Crooked Canyon, Ames Wall, and Ophir Wall. Just outside the southeast border of the Forest, a cluster of five thirteeners offer a variety of climbing possibilities around the Ice Lake Basin. Fuller Peak (13,761 feet), Vermillion Peak (13,894 feet), and Golden Horn (13,780 feet) are all day-hike summits that aren't too difficult. Pilot Knob (13,738 feet) and U.S. Grant Peak (13,767 feet) are major technical climbs for experienced summiteers only.

Lizard Head Pass is full of Wild Flowers and it will take your breath away.

Golf. Checking that out now and all I know is they have some beautiful Golf opportunity.  I am getting excited.

You are gonna have a blast my friend. Just hang lose and what you do not get to do this year brings you back the next year. 4 days of insanely great music toped off with all this extra goodness. Man,,,just sayin.

Where does one get the Cliff Notes' version   ?

Well Lord knows you wouldn't have em

[FaceOnMars]

  You kind of tee'd that one up for me with your long "narrative" ... guess I couldn't resist 

I do try to keep my writing concise (as possible) now, and do appreciate you having brought it to my attention!