I got invited by me sis-in-law Yvonne and her work out buddies, Alicia and Ashley, to do an 18 mile hike this summer. We started on the Little Elk Creek trail and went up over the mountain, down the other slide (we had to glissade - sled on our butts - down because of all the snow...look close at the snow picture and you can see the little dot at the top...thats me! I screamed all the way down!) We then hiked through Waterfall Canyon. Both the waterfalls were gorgeous! We kept hiking to the Upper Palisades Lake which was HUGE! It took us FOREVER to hike from one end to the other, but the color of the water was incredible! We then hiked to the Lower Palisades Lake and then out from there. It was 18 crazy miles on several different types of terrain. We lost the trail several times because of the snow and only found our way thanks to GPS. It was an incredible hike and an extremely LONG day - we hiked from 6am-6:30pm - but I'd totally do it again! My big toe is still trying to decide if I'm going to lose my nail or not 3 weeks later. So Gross!
1/2 Way up Little Elk Creek
The red tint to the snow is called Watermelon snow and it seriously smells like watermelons. When we would lift up our foot the snow under each step was super red. So crazy!
The top of Little Elk Creek with a view of Palisades Reservoir
Upper Palisades Lake
This is the route we took, we just did the hardest climb at the beginning and hiked the easier section at the end. So we hiked it backwards.
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