Sky Watcher's Adventures (or alternatively, 'Many Crazy, Long Hikes')

One of my favorite activities is hiking. I find hiking to be a great activity that allows me to enjoy the outdoors, often in a solitude impossible to experience in the city. Often I hike with friends and enjoy deep conversations on a variety of topics. Besides providing great exercise, hiking offers an excuse to plan trips to the mountains, even if for just a day. I'm attempting to work up trip reports and picture galleries for some of the more notable hiking adventures. Note that my trip reports for the 50 U.S. state highpoints and Colorado 14'ers are in separate sections of this site.

A green link indicates that the race report is complete. A yellow link indicates that the report has some limited information, but has not been completed. A red link indicates that the link is just to a stub page.

Date of hike	Name of objective or trail	Location	Selected picture	Travel Mode	Highest classification on route taken	Round-trip Distance (miles)	Total Elevation Gained (ft)	People
July 13, 2002	Black Lake via Glacier Gorge	Rocky Mountain National Park, CO		hiking				solo
July 10, 2003	North Rim to Roaring Springs and back	Grand Canyon National Park, AZ		hiking				mom
March 20, 2004	Bear Peak via Fern Canyon Trail	Flatirons, Boulder, CO		hiking

I've spent most of my time hiking rather than keeping this hike page up to date. If you're just looking for information on hikes close to Fort Collins, check out the Poudre Wilderness Volunteers pages. They have a great list of local trailheads and trail descriptions for the Cache la Poudre River and Big Thompson River canyons and for the Rawahs.

Here is another hiking resource link: Colorado's Comanche Peak Wilderness Hiking Trails

Other Local Hike Pages

The CSU Hiking Club Home Page by Chris Rozoff (hasn't been updated in a while)

Colorado Hikes by Steve Aves (hasn't been updated in a while)