Friday I joined a group of people for a snowshoe trip. This event was sponsored by the Greeley Senior Center and attracted mostly retirement age people. The leader was an energetic young woman, I was the youngest participant !! A van carried the group up to Rocky Mountain Park where we discovered that the recommended location, Beaver Meadow, had no snow. Bear Lake had plenty of snow on the trails, and the forest sheltered us from the strong gusty winds. After lunch we tried another trail, close to Bear Lake. Pushing against the blizzard-force winds was no fun and we soon turned back. Everyone used the new metal snowshoes, except me. I still have the old wood and lacings snowshoes from years ago, and they are working well. Bird sightings were limited to a few Mountain Chickadees.
......We ended the day with a hike at Devil's Backbone Open Space Area to make up for not snowshoeing as much as we had wanted to. This geologic formation is an eroded "hogback" ridge of sedimentary rock layers. Valley floor soil is mostly red, from eroded sandstone cliffs.
Photos: A portion of Rocky Mountain Park's Elk herd, Lymph Lake covered in snow, and the snowy conifer forest.
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