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| Horsetooth Falls. Seems like a smidge more water than last weekend, tough to tell. | Passing by the Wathen turnoff today and continuing on to Towers trail and on to West Ridge, which I've never hiked. | Spring Creek trail past Wathen turnoff, hazy but gorgeous views to the south-east. | (zoomed a little) Boyd and Horseshoe Lakes in the distance. | Now a nice view of Horsetooth Reservoir too. | ||
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| Intersection of West Ridge and Towers. Never been here before! | Right on schedule, the towers (antennas). | West Ridge has gorgeous views to the west -- looking west-southwest to Longs on the right side. Note topless tree in center. | Looking further left (topless tree is to the right). | Looking further left, nearly straight south - the teeth of Horsetooth Rock. | ||
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| Snow! This is ~7000 feet elevation, end of March, on a north-facing shaded area. I only saw one other small patch of snow the entire hike (~8 miles) | Still on West Ridge looking east to Horsetooth Reservoir and Fort Collins. | Just gorgeous. | Looking south-east to Boyd and Horseshoe lakes again. | Looking up at the Teeth. | ||
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| Now they look more like teeth. | Thanks ladies of Team B.O.B. (babes on bikes) for keeping our trails clean! | Just like last week... hiked miles and miles to the unpopulated areas of Horsetooth Park, and do I see deer? No. But next to the parking lot, a whole herd. | A lot of them looked at me but nobody moved. | Parking lot off to the left middle. I tell ya, you don't need to leave the parking lot to see deer. | ||
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| Cute critters! | ||