Three Mile Creek Hike / Guanella Pass

This Hike heads into the Arapahoe National Forest and Mt Evans Wilderness through shady forest and lots of stream crossings.

The night before it snowed so this is what we saw on the first bridge crossing.

We got started early at 8:30am on the trail. The beginning was quite dark (and cold) about 40 degress because the forest was very thick.

After a while we passed through some meadows.

The aspen trees were beautiful in some parts.

The "three mile creek" was running very swift. The bridges had some snow and ice on them. We had to be careful crossing. Actually we turned around here because my partner fell in the creek. It was very slippery and cold. We had gone 2.5 miles.

This is the trail as it goes through some large rocks. We had to look for the trail again.

This was the view from the next trailhead up called lake abyss trail.

We drove North to Guanella Pass and onto Georgetown for some beautiful fall views of the Aspens. Next time we will be sure of no snow the night before.