edpaffjr.comSaturday morning I went for a hike with a small group of people from work. The guy who put it all together is a very experienced hiker, and he has created a program for the summer culminating with a hike of Mount Elbert, one of the many 14,000 foot peaks in Colorado. Though I don’t think I’ll be able to attend any of the other group hikes, I am hoping to hike a bunch this summer, including at least one 14er. So his knowledge will definitely help when I have any questions arise.
Back to Saturday, we hiked on the Ben Tyler trail for around 5 miles round-trip. As this was the first hike in the series, it’s the easiest on the schedule, but still provided enough challenges to make it interesting. The toughest thing that I found was hiking on the snow that we encountered. We crossed over a creek, around our halfway mark, and onto a north facing slope. This was still covered in snow and quite slippery as you could imagine. It was a great first hike filled with varying terrain. I can’t wait to get back out in the coming weekends.