Backpacking in Colorado

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Pingree? Heck maybe lol!

 

[lam396]

How far do you want to drive? Lots of cool trails in the Telluride/Ouray area.

I'm coming from stl, what's a few more hours?! Hahaha

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[lam396]

This doesn’t tick all your boxes but a real crowd pleaser. No fish up in the lakes. We took a family backpacking trip here this summer. A real high alpine experience. Ice and island lakes. Go mid week as it’s very popular.

We only had to share the lake with one other party of 2.


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Wow, this looks incredible! Thanks for the tip, I love fishing but this looks like its worth the trip!

 

[vanish]

Ice Lake is very cool but be prepared to be there with 100 other people.

 

[seldomseensmith]

Ice Lake is very cool but be prepared to be there with 100 other people.

The trail head is very busy, the first 2 miles of the trail are very busy. By early afternoon the day hikers are headed downhill. By dinner time there were 6 people at the lake including my 4. The next day we went to island lake and were the only ones there. So yes to be fair this is a very popular hike and the lakes are above 12k’ but crowd wise I found it very worth the experience.
I also wanted to share a backpacking pic from last weekend. A bit more isolated and one state to the south but getting the kids 25’ from these sheep was quite popular as well

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[lam396]

I'm not opposed to going further south! I'm actually heading there for first archery in Sept. Looks like you all get out and do a bit of backpacking, thats awesome!

 

[bwlacy]

This doesn’t tick all your boxes but a real crowd pleaser. No fish up in the lakes. We took a family backpacking trip here this summer. A real high alpine experience. Ice and island lakes. Go mid week as it’s very popular.

We only had to share the lake with one other party of 2.


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Very nice trail. My daughter and I went to all 3 lakes last year. It was her first back country adventure. We spent a couple nights up there. Then went to Blue Lakes trail not too far from there. Another cool trail with beautiful lakes.