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Brown's Lake to Cameron Pass-Finally Finished! |
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Written by Cameron Ackerman
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On Wednsday, July 11, my dad and me walked onto Brown's Lake trail. The begining of our five day, thirty-five mile backpacking trip. We would stay at Brown's Lake, an old cabin, the Poudre River, Long Draw Reservior, American Lakes, and be picked up at Cameron Pass. For a more detailed of our trip click on read more below. |
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Wendsday we walked about four miles. We walked from the trail head
through a wooded area to the top of Crown Point. We walked past
Brown's Lake and stopped for water at a spring by a trappers cabin. It
was about another mile until we got to where we wanted to set up our
tent. It was on the edge of a very, very steep hill, almost a cliff I
guess, overlooking Brown's Lake.
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Thursday we had breakfast, folded up our tent, and started
walking. I don't remember a lot of the first part of the day. We were
mostly under trees. When we finally got out of the trees, we took a
short break. There were two trails. One going straight up a mountain,
and the other was much longer but less steep. We went the steeper
trail straight up the side. It was fairly flat on the top. My dad
even got a cell phone signal. So he called a few people. He talked for a
while and then we continued hiking. There was a couple more miles of
tiring hiking, before we got to an old cabin. It rained quite a bit while my
dad looked for a place to set up our tent. |
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Thursday was tiring enough, Friday was exuasting. That
day we hiked up Comanche Peak, then back down. Going up, we gained
1,000 feet in altitude. We went down 2,000 coming down the other
side. We did all that in about 3 miles. I guess it wasn't all bad.
Coming up we saw a bunch of elk. We also came to the edge of a cliff
overlooking Mirror Lake. We could see where we were going to go
tomorrow. Anyway, we ended up down climbing a few rock faces about 8
feet high. We got down fine, and hiked all the way to the Poudre
River. I don't how far that was, but it was insanely tiring. It
rained toward the end, and we had to get our tent up really fast so
water didn't get in it. All in all, we walked about 9 miles that day. We ate, and then quickly fell asleep. |
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Saturday was the easiest in terms of distance. We probably walked
about 4 to 5 miles that day. But it was mostly on a hard dirt road.
After we woke up we ate and tore down camp. We walked about a mile to
the traill head where we stopped and took a break. We walked up the road
by the traill head which ran along side Long Draw Reservoir. After about
3 miles of walking we stopped at a campground, at the south end of the
reservoir, to refill on water and eat. We walked another mile south and
camped near a creek. We ate then retreated to the tent early because it
started to rain. |
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Sunday was my favorite day from the whole week. It wasn't a terribly
hard day. There was one steep part, but it wasn't that bad. We had to
dry the tent off when we woke up because the rain water had frozen on
it over the night. We ate and set off walking down a service road to
the Thunder Pass trail head. It was about 3 and 1/2 miles to the pass.
We were mostly under trees until we got to Thunder Pass. At the top of
Thunder Pass we stopped and ate. From there we saw where we were going
to set camp. I guess you could call what we were about to go down a
valley, I'm not sure if that is really what it is. We set camp uphill
from a stream running from a lake. I spent most of the day down by the
stream doing whatever. It was a really cool place to camp. |
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Monday was our last day. It seemed like we walked alot further than we really did. In the morning we took a little hike up to a lake called Snow Lake. You can see why in th picture. We walked back down to camp, hung out for a little bit, then packed up left. We hiked on about 2 to 3 miles of actual trail before we came to a service road to the Cameron Pass picnic grounds. So we walked on that until we came to the picnic grounds right across the street. As soon as I got there I pretty much collapsed and tried to go to sleep. We waited there until my mom came and picked us up.
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