Glenwood Adventures

Nate and Shelly invited us to join them on a hike to Hanging Lake on Saturday (7 July). We gladly accepted the offer and then made a day of it by having "lunner" at Moe's, hiking to Doc Holliday's grave (after we finally found the cemetery!), and visiting Sunlight Mountain Resort to check yet another ski resort off the "to visit" list.

First stop - Hanging Lake.

I was pretty bad at the stat keeping for this hike, so I'm just kind of guesstimating below:

Start time: ~1:15 pm (not my brightest idea ever, but it worked out okay despite the heat)

Rest/eat/explore time: ?? maybe a half hour ??

Back time: ~3:15 pm

Total round trip time: ~2 hours

Total mileage: ~3 miles (including the walk back to the car at the end of the parking lot - but at least it wasn't at the end of the off ramp on the freeway where I almost parked because the cars were backed up that far!)

High point: ~7100 feet

And the part you've all been waiting for (or at least you should have - because it's the best): the photos!

Words really are inadequate for the beauty of this place.
So I'll just stop typing now.

A little side trip to Sprouting Rock:

"I wonder why they call it Sprouting Rock?"
- Gregg, the funny one

A peek down on the lake (and the crowd) from above.

One of the little overlooks along the trail looking back into
Glenwood Canyon.

It was a steep hike.  Basically a mile straight
up rock stairs.  Also - it was packed.  I've
never ever seen so many people on a hike
in my entire life.  Felt like Disney Land!

After grabbing some grub, we attempted to find the burial site of Doc Holliday - after a few wrong locations given to us by the trusty iphones, we finally found the trailhead to the cemetery.  It's up about a half mile on a dirt trail (formerly road, I think) amid juniper trees and sagebrush.  Really pretty small, and quite old, it was a fun little adventure.

The small, flat headstone says,
"this memorial dedicated to Doc Holliday
who is buried someplace in this cemetery".

The view from Doc's headstone.

And the last leg of our journey turned into a "rainy day road trip" which took us on a beautiful scenic drive up to Sunlight Mountain Resort.  Below is the only photographic evidence of that stop, taken from the dry safety of the Sub since it was so wet outside.  We humans, however, did venture out for a few minutes since we are a little more waterproof than the camera.  Nice little mountain - we'll have to come back when it's white.