Blue Lakes
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: There are two trailheads, East Dallas Trailhead (closest town is Ridgway) and Yankee Boy Basin Trailhead near Telluride. We started at East Dallas. There are three lakes – Lower,…
Snodgrass Trail
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: If you have two cars, you can do this hike as a point-to-point or roundtrip from one of the two different trailheads. We started at the Gothic Road trailhead…
Bighorn Creek Trail
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: The parking lot next to the trail is very very small. If there are no spots available, you’ll need to park down the road a bit (towards the direction…
Stag Gulch Trail
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: The gem of this hidden hike is the huge fields and meadows of wildflowers, mostly the mule-ears, an iconic native sunflower. Directions: If you’re coming from Grand Junction (western…
Paradise Falls
Cappie’s Scoop: This is a cool waterfall to see but it would’ve been better if mom let me swim in the water. I didn’t get a chance to jump in the water this time but we had a nice long hike and I got…
Coronado Island Loop
Cappie’s Scoop: I love to hike but sometimes I don’t want to sit in the car for a long drive to a trail. So mom picks out an urban trail close to our house for us to hike. This time I hiked around the…
South Fork Trail 2E17
Cappie’s Scoop: This trail surprised us! I didn’t expect much because we parked on the side of the road but once we started hiking, we were deep in the mountains with cool forest views! Then we passed over a running creek which was fun…
Hollenbeck Canyon
Cappie’s Scoop: Spring is a great time to visit this canyon! Lots of flowers to smell, sticks to crunch and of course green grass to eat. Yummm! We did a big loop around the canyon and even took a small side trail to see some…
Snow Day on Tahquitz Peak
Nala’s Scoop: First snow hike up in the Idyllwild mountains! Mileage (round trip) 6.6 or 8.1 Difficulty Strenuous Gain (in feet) 2400 Trailhead 33.735309, -116.696079 (via South Ridge Trail for 6.6 RT or 33.764694, -116.686133 (via Devils Slide Trail for 8.1 RT) Hike Time…
Lake Sabrina to Emerald Lakes
Cappie’s Scoop: This trail has a lot of big rocks that I can climb on to see a view of Lake Sabrina! I wanted to swim in the lake but mom said we’re hiking to another lake and I would be able to swim…