A sunny day with a little cloud movement made for a pleasant but good-exercise hike through Phoenix Park. We had a half-dozen new hikers with us who did well and made it to the beautiful water-fall. Color is coming back to the mountains, with gold and yellow highlighting pinks and purples.
This annual visit shows signs of over-use by machinery which kicks up the rocks and creates gullies.
Our Wednesday hike is selected for a trip close to home, walking up to Model T Park. We'll gather at the South Fork Visitor Center by 9 a.m. We should be back by 2:30 or so.
We found last year that the Touring Car Model T is disintegrating rather rapidly at this former portable sawmill area. Our trail is apparently the car's route up to 10,000 feet, where the boss may have abandoned the vehicle after some breakdown. We're all getting older, but so far I haven't found anyone old enough to remember what happened there. We'll have orange articles of clothing for you to warn bow hunters of our presence.
At any rate, it is a beautiful clearing up over South Fork. It was burned in 2002, but is coming back with vigorous aspen stands. In a few years this burned area could become a tourist attractive on the big hills. Already, the aspen leaves are showing up pretty well. Nature takes its courses and we can do our best to enjoy them.
Thanks for coming along and keeping those of us whom you encourage to appreciate our beautiful landscapes, even as we keep our legs, arms. and hearts moving with vigor.
Don't forget that on Tuesday evening, we'll eat outdoors on Shaw Mesa and then take a moonlight walk to the east end of the place (on a road). We hope some of you will bring a small food plate to share with others. People will be building a campfire there at about 6:30, but the feeding won't come until 7 or 7:30. After the moon comes up, we'll stroll eastward. — Doug Knudson
Appreciating the route
22 hikers start on the upslope
There is beauty in these mountains
Thanks for your youthfulness in our midst
A high but Graceful waterfall
First day of September
Up there? Really?? They made it!
This is the flower
This is the place!
Grace under water (sort of)
Gentlemen of the Cross
The path downward
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