Colorado Devils Canyon & Bill Moore Lake 9/16/06

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Here's Andrew on an old stone foundation next to the mine.

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It's hard to keep your eyes on the road when there's so much to see all around

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Lots of loose rock on this trail. My locker failed (again), and I had a hard time getting up the last hill. This was a good spot for a breather.

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We kept climbing higher and higher. We never quite reached treeline, but weren't far from it.

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Now we're in it. At this point, snowmelt and runoff were turning parts of the trail into mud. It got really slick at the bottom of this hill.

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At last the end of the trail. The lake is just beyond that fence. We got there just in front of a snow flurry and the temp dropped to 32-35*.

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And here's Bill Moore lake, right underneath the Continental Divide. As the snow blew in, it drove us back to our trucks. I for one was ready to head back down.

It was a great trip, not very technical for the most part, but you can't beat the scenery. Won't be long before you'll need snowmobiles or a snowcat to get back there.