Rough plan:
Depart Thursday Aug 29th after work for Colorado
Reach Woodland Park CO in time to order from the breakfast menu at McDonalds, stock up on supplies from the Super Walmart.
Head for Buena Vista.
Reach the trailhead at Alpine lake.
Alpine Lake
Reach lakeside mountain base camp friday morning. Spend day resting and relaxing, fishing, hiking,
Baldwin Lake – Base camp for Friday
Interesting things around Friday’s Basecamp:
Mount Mamma Abandoned Mine (Half mile from base camp)
Grizzly Mountain Hike (1 mile from base camp)
- Ridge Hike to Cronin Peak (1.1 miles from basecamp)
Saturday: After a good rest head up mount white hike around a bit, then cross the valley over to Antero (2 miles apart)
great pics of the trip: http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f58/mt-antero-browns-lake-co-7-10-09-a-951059/
Antero Road
View from Mt White
View from Antero summit
Drive down mountain & head to the ghost town strip trail.
On our way to base camp 2 we will pass:
Ghosttown – St. Elmo
The Mary Murphy mine lower level
And the upper level after several steep switchbacks
Allie-Belle Mine
Hancock
Iron Chest Mine
Eventually we will traverse the treacherous Tincup pass to get to Mirror Lake. I attempted this in the subaru one year and made it about half a block.
Tincup Pass summit
Reach base camp of mountain/objective #2 sometime in the evening.
Base camp for saturday evening: Mirror Lake
Mirror Lake
Mirror Lake Fish
Sunday: Leave Mirror Lake and head for base camp charlie. This will be a challenging trail with large rocks, but nothing dangerous. At the end of the trail is an area with at least 27 visible ghost town structures high up in a mountain valley. I have not been able to find any photographs or name for the area but it appears to have been a large mine.
download, rename this pdf to .zip and uncompress the file. import it into google earth for full view of trails and waypoints.
My Places.renameto.zip
David P. Roberts
This looks like an awesome trip! I’ve always wanted to go backpacking, I’m a little jealous.
Room for one more in the Jeep, im sure the guys wouldnt mind 😀
We’re going to need to get a portable raft for Mirror Lake. That looks like fun.
We’re going to need to get a portable raft for mirror lake. Looks like fun.
i have a fishing floaty i was gonna bring, its pretty good and rugged. i have another inflatable boat too. i might bring my air compressor if theres room for the tires, takes a LOOOTT of air to air them up. 50psi on the road, 20psi on the rocks. we’ll see tho. i bought a 3 day fishing pass a few years ago it wasnt too expensive.