Liking Mucho Hiking! A blog about our mucho hikes.

About three times a year, Leti and I take a vacation from our jobs and hike ourselves all over creation. It's a great tradition. This fall we decided upon Telluride and Black Canyon of the Gunnison. We tried to go here in 2020, but the week we were supposed to go had rain in the forecast. Every. Single. Day. So, we scrapped those plans (because in 2020 you could scrap such plans and blame it on Covid) and went to the Sawtooth's. Well, we finally made it to Telluride. It turned out to be a grand adventure where we experienced fall and winter each day.  🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾 Sneffels High Line and Deep Creek Loop. Miles: 14. 3 Elevation gain: 3,986 ft. Date hiked: Oct. 13, 2022 We decided to do this trail at the last minute. The original trail, we noted, had snow on it, and we didn't have our winter spikes. (We ended up doing it the next day instead!). This trail was just lovely. We only got lost once (and saw person 1 of 3 on the trail). We started up the trail at what I thought was a ...

🥾🥾🥾🥾  Leti pointing to Pfeifferhorn (which she hiked a few weeks later) from Mount Baldy Mount Baldy/Sugarloaf Loop: 7.3 miles. 2,988 vertical feet. Date hiked: Aug. 13, 2022 This hike seemed somewhat doomed from the start. But, in the end, it turned out to be a lovely hike. First, we hiked up a road. That's just bad. Hiking up something you can drive up is no bueno. Second, we heard what we thought was an avalanche control boom, which made exactly zero sense. No snow. We learned later that it was a meteor entering planet Earth. And, it was heard all over the Salt Lake Valley. Third, the helicopter about made us crazy. At first, said helicopter looked so cool. And then, said helicopter kept going up and down the mountain. They aren't exactly known for their silence. Said helicopter was carrying steel posts (or metal somethings) for the skiing season. Luckily, that helicopter finished the job before we made it to Mt. Baldy. But, the solitude we were looking for took a while ...