Here's an overview map of where Taylor and I went.
If you click on the map itself, you can see a more detailed version.Here's an overview map of where Taylor and I went.
If you click on the map itself, you can see a more detailed version.
We left around 9:45 and got back around 3:15, a 5 and half hour trip overall. Taylor walked all the way. This is about 14.5 miles, so he was doing about 2.6 miles an hour. He can boogie.
We went out with Derek and Dr B, another Morgan at the barn. We started out on Canyon, went up Moore to Boy Scout Junction, and then down Shaver, and then out Concrete Pipe and then down Fish Gulch. We got to Phoenix Junction around 10:45.
We split up, and Taylor and I went up Eldridge, stopping for a drink at the water trough. We stopped for lunch at the pullout just before Inspiration Point at about noon. Somehow PB&J tastes great when you're hungry enough! Same for the yoghurt.
We left around 12:15 and headed across the Northside Trail. The first 5 minutes is a real challenge with narrow trails, squeezing rocks, low branches, big drop offs. One solo hiker came around the trail and was startled to see Taylor and I. We got to Collier Springs about 45 minutes later. Jamie at the barn suggested that we should have eaten lunch there. I think that would have been a good call... more places to tie up and a bench. Just feel a little bad about leaving horse **** for the next hiker who's trying to get away from it all.
We got to Rifle Camp about 1:15, turned down Lagunitas Fireroad, and then turned off on Lower Berry Trail, then hung a right on Shadyside and ended up at the Lagunitas parking lot. Taylor took a long drink at the water trough, and we went down the road for a while, and then turned on the trail across from the Sunnside cutoff, and then went down Shaver back to Five Points. We took the Deer Park Fireroad to Boy Scout Junction, and then the connector, and then Canyon back to the barn.
Taylor had a few challenges waiting for me while I was taking pictures once we got to Lower Berry. And just an occasional jig as we went back on upper Shaver etc. on the way home. But his heart wasn't really in it. Here's the pictures: