I and a couple buddies of mine went down to St. Elmo (ghost town) area here in Colorado last weekend to run Grizzly Lake Trail.

Man, what a great time. Not only did we not have any major breakdowns but had a great time on a moderately hard trail leading up through some gorgeous mountain scenery up to Grizzly Lake which sits in a gulch between two huge mountain ridges.

Add to that some really fun fly fishing for wild, brilliantly colored brook trout, a good time sitting around the campfire later that night, and falling asleep to the rain on the tent, and you wind up with one heck of a great weekend.

The trip down was just as pretty, fun, and thankfully, without major incident. The full write up and some pics are over here in case you're bored. http://tc.wagoneer.net/sblog/index.php?entry=entry070819-120350

Great little writeup and a nice lookin' blog. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

That is a great trail! I ran it for my first time Aug 10th at CoZu.

Yeah, that was a fun trail. Actually both Iron Chest Mine and Grizzly Lake were fun trails when I ran them Aug 10 with CO 'Zu. Hey, I'm even in the background in that last pic. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I was really happy to have made it up that first obstacle to Grizzly Lake on the first try this time. I stayed far right, turned on both lockers, and gave it a little momentum. I just remember really struggling with that obstacle a couple years ago with multiple different lines.

I really enjoyed your tale. Thanks for sharing!