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Sunday, February 15, 2026

Grand Mesa - County Line

 A different day today. Cloudy with some wind. They are predicting snow and storms coming up. It looked like it today. Snow was great and I explored off the groomers for most of today. I started out breaking trail and then realized that wasn't so easy with this much snow. I was able to find a number of tracks that went into lakes and I also went to a few great lookout spots. It wasn't the perfect blue sky day of yesterday but very nice in its own way.

Note: I started at Mesa Top trailhead. This is the start of the Palisade Plunge, I think, and also a hiking trailhead. In the winter this is the jumping off point for snow mobiles. Probably good to explore on skis but it was a Sunday and there were a number of snow mobiles getting ready to head out so I decided to try County Line and leave this for a week day.





















Saturday, February 14, 2026

Grand Mesa - Skyway

 New snow, sunny, high of 30, blue sky. What more can be said?


























Tuesday, February 10, 2026

McInnis Canyons - D5

 Clouds and weather moving in for the next few days. Hopefully significant snow in the mountains. Today I started at the Poleo Trail and went to the Skinner cabin. Last person that lived there left in 1953. Built in early 1900's. I connected with D5 which is a nice trail. Saw a cave from above that would be good to explore some day. Could not get to it from where I was. Then looped around D7 back to the car. There are still more trails in this area I have not explored.