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Geoff Weatherford (geoffw)  > Colorado Trail Hiking > Forester Creek, Zirkel Wilderness, CO September 15, 2007
Took a hike along a small river valley in the Zirkel Wilderness Area of Colorado on September 15, 2007. Please go to my trail blogging site (opens a new window) for a full description of the trip.
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Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > Headed up to the Zirkel Wilderness one Saturday last fall (Sept !5, 2007 to be exact).  The plan was to get back up into an area that I'd had not been in yet.  Well, I was successful in that attempt; its just that I ended up not quite where I thought I'd be going : )  That said, the Fall colors were starting, the weather was mostly nice, I survived, so no big deal.
Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > The trail I wanted to go on was up near the northern section of the Zirkel Wilderness.  Trail number 1126 takes off at the end of a road (on the map I had) that you get to from Big Creek Lake (and heads south all along the eastern boundary of the wilderness area).  So, I headed up the road (after enjoying looking at the lake) and "thought" I found the trailhead.  I mean, it looked like a trail, had a sign on it, and was sorta where the trail should be, so I figured it had to be the one.  Turns out, it wasn't the one, but it ended up being a nice trail anyway.  It did have a great parking lot just a couple of hundred yards away (just a big meadow).
Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > So, I parked the truck and headed up the trail.  After the first sign (just says "national forest trail - no motorized vehicles" or something similar), I noticed that the trail seemed to be rather "unused."  In fact, it mostly seemed to follow an old ditch (used to transport water for irrigation, I guess).  But, it kept going and the day was nice, so I kept following it.  It did pass some great looking meadows which looked like prime moose country.
Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > Here is another meadow with a pond ..........
Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > After a while the trail got pretty "weak", to say the least.
Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > So, I hopped over the ditch I mentioned....................
Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > and scouted around until I found the trail (or, "a" trail : ) on the other side that seemed to keep going up a fairly good sized creek  Originally I'd been headed (or, so I thought) to where the trail number 1126 intersected with Shafer Creek.  But, what I was following really did not seem like what the area on the map looked like (the map I had was not a topo map).  But, it was a trail (mostly : ) and was following a stream that led up into the mountains.  So I figured I couldn't go too wrong.
Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > Eventually I got to a camp site that looked mostly like something that must be used by a group of hunters once or twice a year.
Geoff Weatherford (geoffw) > It was situated right before reaching a pretty nice meadow that the trail seemed to stop at.
Headed up to the Zirkel Wilderness one Saturday last fall (Sept !5, 2007 to be exact). The plan was to get back up into an area that I'd had not been in yet. Well, I was successful in that attempt; its just that I ended up not quite where I thought I'd be going : ) That said, the Fall colors were starting, the weather was mostly nice, I survived, so no big deal.
 > Headed up to the Zirkel Wilderness one Saturday last fall (Sept !5, 2007 to be exact).  The plan was to get back up into an area that I'd had not been in yet.  Well, I was successful in that attempt; its just that I ended up not quite where I thought I'd be going : )  That said, the Fall colors were starting, the weather was mostly nice, I survived, so no big deal.
Headed up to the Zirkel Wilderness one Saturday last fall (Sept !5, 2007 to be exact). The plan was to get back up into an area that I'd had not been in yet. Well, I was successful in that attempt; its just that I ended up not quite where I thought I'd be going : ) That said, the Fall colors were starting, the weather was mostly nice, I survived, so no big deal.
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