My friend Lucy wanted to go for a hike (she's car-less, I provided the transport and she provided the motivation.) T-storms rolled into Denver that afternoon, it hailed briefly, we went anyway. We attempted to get to a trail west of Sedalia (southwest of Denver) she knew that leads to an old fire watchtower... however the access road was closed for forest maintenance. So we continued up HW67 for a minute and found the Indian Creek Trailhead. I'd
ridden this same road a couple weeks ago, just before a week before the Lower North Fork forest fire broke out in the area I'd ridden through. Today was a pleasant post-rain hike for a couple of miles through a recently thinned forest... and came to a neat vista in the late evening light.
We'd hit a perfect storm-less window, as Denver was treated to another round of boomers after I got back home. Fantastic to get out of the city and into the woods after a Wednesday workday.
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| Scrub Oak patch looking south from Indian Creek Trail summit in Jefferson County |
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