Presidents' Day Weekend - Trip 1!

On super short notice, patrol 14 gathered a few troops and met up with a group of folks from CO4x4, a local off road forum, and headed up to Left Hand Canyon near Boulder. It was a perfect day for winter wheelin! The sun was shining and the temps were warm enough for a t-shirt and no jacket! This trail is very mellow from the staging area all the way to five points. There was not much snow on the ground for this part of the trip, but there was certainly a lot of mud.

Since the conditions were pretty favorable, we decided to head over to Fireman's hill and see what it was like over there. The hill was dry, so we started up the steep climb.

If you have never been to this trail, I highly recommend it! At the top of fireman's hill, there is a wicked rock garden on the left. You can also bypass this garden to the right.

The views from on top are just incredible!

Once we were in the trees and on a northern facing slope, the snow got a lot deeper but we made it down to another fork no problem. At this point we met a small group that had just come up the other direction from five points. they informed us that the slope was very snow packed and very slippery. We opted to turn back the way we came and call it a day.

For the first wheeling trip of 2012, It was a wonderful day and the only damage for the day, was a screw that Ryan found in his tire while airing back up. 

Check out more photos from this trip in our album!