August 23 - Chopaka

New Denver Area

August 13 - Municipal Creek Ridges

August 9 - Apex

July 30 - Little white mountain exploratory hike

July 26 - Apex mountain and ridges south

7 of us enjoyed cool weather and masses of alpine flowers as we hiked the west side of Apex, and then along the top of Razorback Ridge and the summits of 2 Point Mountain.
Masses of Alpine Flowers were at their peak on the ridges south of Apex Mountain.

July 19 - Sheep Rock

19 of us enjoyed perfect conditions, and alpine flowers at their peak, as we did the pleasant hike to Sheep Rock's western summit.
Fortunately the recent wind storm hadn't brought down any more trees since we had cleared it 10 days ago.

July 12 - Riordan summit and nickel plate lake

A dozen of us climbed to the summit of Mount Riordan, followed the trail by the
5 Pothole Lakes, and dropped down to Nickle Plate Lake: lunching at the Moraine, and then crossing the east end trail.

July 8 - Work party to sheep rock

5 of us had to saw 30 plus fallen trees to clear the trail, but it was worth the effort with cool breezes, clear skies and many early flowers in the alpine areas.

July 6 - tinhorn creek - middle mountain

Today 13 of us met at Tinhorn Vineyard and climbed up the Tinhorn Creek drainage to to the 3400' level (2000' el gain) then traversed Middle Mt and returned to our start via Hester Creek and the lower bench.
We sought out shady spots going up and had cool breezes coming down.