Switzerland Trail loop, clockwise - 47 miles
With Rach, from town.
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Jamestown Canyon, Ward, Switzerland Trail, Highline Drive loop
A 40 miler with Rach off the beaten track. Just as tough or more so than any of our Telluride to Moab days. At least 5K ft of climbing along this route, I would guess. Parked at the turn off for Old Stage on Lefthand and rode up to Jamestown with the rest of the hoards of roadies that head up to the market for coffee on a Sunday morning. Once we got onto the dirt, we saw all of 1 other mnt biker and handful of roadies while zooming down through Ward to our cut off to the Switzerland Trail. This is such a cool route! View Jamestown Canyon, Ward, Highline Rd Loop in a larger map
Neva Peak ridge hike
With Alex and Evan. Early start to avoid the tstorms. Got to the trailhead at 7:30. Already way too many cars and people...sheesh, this place is turning into California... Hit the ridge by 8:40 just as the first puffers were forming. Early even for these parts...by the time we got past Neva, we were in the clouds and could just make out the eastern upslope starting to force to some convection. We decided to be wise and cut down the first accessible drainage. That was fun! Lots of glissading and a fine time following the creek down and then traversing on the north slopes over to the main trail (right near the turn off for Arapahoe Peak). That was a fun loop if you don't have all day to the full ridge hike past Diamond Lake.
