Author: Jim, Sagebrush

Last night the sailboat that was around the bend anchored closer to my tent site, so this is what I saw when breaking camp.

Grand Bay part of Lake Granby looks so peaceful early in the morning.

The trail moves away from lakeside for a time, and goes through a really marshy area and my feet get soaked. Oh well, if I were a moose now I would be happy, since they seem to like standing in lakes and getting wet feet.
Continue reading “Lakes”

The morning is spent walking the High Lonesome Trail, meandering through woods of pine, spruce, huckleberry, and skeeters. This is the representative view.

Sometimes we did pass through wetlands.

I met a trail maintenance volunteer who warned that a trail later in the day was not maintained, had a high degree of difficulty with deadfall, and the trail often disappeared. He said the forest service administrator would not permit his group to work on the trail, claiming it was too risky with beetle kill trees still standing.
Continue reading “Deadwood”

The sky today starts out clear, and never gets cloudy enough for rain. That has not happened for many days.
The climb of the morning is James Peak (13k), and several weekend day hikers are climbing it the same time as me.

Here are some of the other hikers at the top. There is very little wind at top so I can shed my windbreaker, unusual at this high altitude.

On the way down, the wind picks up, and blows fiercely all day until Rollins Pass at around 5PM. Continue reading “Wind and Ridge”