Yesterday afternoon, my son and I returned from a 3-day camping trip to Lost Creek Wilderness here in Colorado.
This was his first multi-day camping trip with any sort of weight in his pack.
Without further ado...
Lost Creek is on the edge of the massive Hayman Burn area. The amount of destruction from 2003 is still astounding.
there was actually a fire burning on Tuesday. You can see the smoke on the horizon (right side) here:
Here's our route. You drive about 45 offroad from Deckers, CO to get to the trail head. We camped at the bottom end of the blue line. The "bunkhouse" and "shafthouse" are the ruins of a 19-teens attempt to **** the creek and create a reservoir.
Heading in: (the start of the trail heads down hill to the left, and it eventually hooks back to right down to that patch of evergreens.
As you enter the creek bottom, you're hiking right alongside the Goose Creek, but after a ways the trail splits away from the creek and you have amazing views of rock formations. (this is all Pikes Peak Granite)
Our destination is basically right behind the pine tree above my son's head:
From the destination looking back south:
We camped at the spot that Lost Creek emerges from underground and becomes Goose Creek:
Eating breakfast in a little speck of sunlight. (It was low 30s overnight)
Headed out:
We had a blast and he was a trooper... zero complaining. A friend of his was going to join us, but his dad decided that it was too big of a challenge after we scouted the hike in a few weeks ago. Consequently, my son feels especially accomplished.
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Originally Posted by Canoefor2
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