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Driving the Trail Ridge

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
Since I moved to Colorado nine years ago, almost to the day, I've wanted to drive Trail Ridge Road, the highest continual road in the country at a maximum elevation of 12,183 feet. And finally, today, I did just that.

It was a long day with a lot of driving, but the views on Trail Ridge Road and the hikes we went on in Rocky Mountain National Park made up for all of the time in the car, much of which was raining anyway. We were sprinkled on a bit at the end of our first hike to Albert...

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Mueller State Park

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
Mueller State Park, just south of Divide, Colorado, is my new favorite spot in Colorado. For a very long time that spot was held by Rocky Mountain National Park, but in my visit yesterday the beauty of Mueller trumped it.

My only disappointment is that we only had a limited period of time to visit the dozens of interconnecting trails in the park. I really wish my friend and I had more time to see more of the park. But, in order to do that properly, I think it would've required a...

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Eldorado Canyon State Park

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
I'm going to make it a point to get back up to Eldorado Canyon State Park this summer to do another couple of hikes.

I was there just this past week with a friend and a visiting journalist from Germany to do a hike and I really enjoyed it. But one hike in there seemed to be just the tip of the iceberg. The road in the canyon went back so far that I know there were several other trails in there to go on.

And really, we never even totally finished the trail we were on to a Continental Divide over...
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