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I am a sucker for mountain wild flowers. These are just a few of the beautiful flowers along the way.
I am a sucker for mountain wild flowers. These are just a few of the beautiful flowers along the way.
This is the payoff. Betty Lake with the Continental Divide in the background. If you hike to the divide, you can look over the Frasier Valley and see Mary Jane and Winter Park Ski area. This picture and the next 8 pictures make up a panorama of the view from just above Betty Lake. The upcoming pictures move clockwise in a circle
Picture #3 shows the 400 ft. hillside that my son Mitchell and I climbed on Sunday morning. We were actually able to go right up the face using the rock shoot in the left center. It was a fun, tiring, hand over hand climb and almost as interesting coming down.
Picture #5 in the series. This one is interesting because it looks back down the valley that we hiked up and if you look in the upper left hand part of the photo you will see on old railroad truss. There are actually two of these trusses along this cliff face. Truly an engineering spectacular!
In picture #6 of the series, again the railroad truss, this time in the upper left hand part of the picture.
Photo #7 in the series, this photo actually contains a parking area that you can see in on the ridge line. Just left of the little peak in the center is a parking area for a 4wd road that comes up from the Frazier Valley. If you come in from that point, I believe Betty Lake is about 2 miles away.
Picture #8 in this series is not the best picture, but it shows two things. One, in the far upper left hand corner and possibly not visible is the trail down to King Lake. Two, and much more interesting is the center snow field. When we were hiking into this area, three snow boarders were boarding down that snow field and climbing back up to do it again. Let me tell you, that is a very steep snowf field. You would have to be in good shape and be a very good boarder to take it on.
Picture #9 in the series brings us all the way back around to Betty Lake. Wow, what a beautiful area.
Remember that hillside/rock face Mitchell and I climbed, well here I am on top. In the background is a very nice picture of King Lake and just a corner of Betty Lake in the lower right. What a view.
Here is Mitchell looking back toward King Lake with Bob Lake and the continental divide in the background.
This is the first ever picture of my boys fly fishing at the same time
These and other cuts were not exactly eager, but they were catchable. We caught fish an a parachuts adams, prince nymph, flashback emerger, and a mesquito pattern.
Can you hear the dinner bell ringing? The only trout I have ever eaten from Colorado water are high mountain trout. So far, they have never dissapointed.
Here we are at the Hesse Trailhead. As we stand here, we are 6 miles and 2400 feet below Betty Lake. Bob Lake and King Lake are probably less than 100 feet higher. Good thing we are in shape!