It's a 3 hour drive from here and everything is so velvety green, it's amazing. White peaks and green fuzz.
In the SW corner of the park, we headed up a rough dirt road (Betty is tough) to a trailhead in a relatively recent burn. Steep and windy, some sharp drop-offs, one track. Couple of mountain bikes zipped past the other way. I pulled off the steep bank into the brush so a new Baby Bronco could pass without getting dirty or scratched.
The hiking trail was pretty gentle and in a couple of miles we got to a pond that the beavers have built a nice dam on, raising it probably 3 feet. We heard a high pitched noise and thought it was distance geese, but it's the wind whistling on the tall burned poles, like the noise a sailboat mast makes in the wind. There would be one standing silver tree, and as you passed it the noise would come from behind you..ah ha!
Had a great lunch, the hike, visited, and headed home at dinner time. Not too busy on the road considering the holiday, but it was grey and drippy.
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