Last Monday was a beautiful fall day and we knew we should take advantage of it and get a good hike in! The trailhead is off of the 550, between Durango and Silverton so it took us nearly 2 hours to get there.
The trail was 2 miles round trip and marked as easy since elevation only changed 419 feet. The worst was that it had some very rocky areas so that made it a little harder but the children all managed just fine. Ethan even walked a good bit of the way, but only because he has decided that he's to big for the carrier.
The Aspen leaves were just changing to a bright yellow and against the brilliant blue sky it made a stunning picture! There was several beaver ponds along the way but we didn't see any beavers. No surprise really, we're fairly noisy hikers :) .
We ate our lunch at the lake and the children waded and played with "boats". After an hour of relaxing and soaking in the beauty we headed back down. This is actually a pretty easy hike, esp if you take your time! Emily made it with basically no whining so that says something :).
I'm so glad that we did this because ever since then it's been cool and rainy-not nice hiking weather at all!
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