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| Run/Jog | 10.76 Miles |
2,182 AEG |
| | Run/Jog | 10.76 Miles | 3 Hrs 51 Mns 34 Secs | | 2.91 mph |
| 2,182 ft AEG | 10 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | The plan was to take the Sheridan Crosscut up to Liberty Bell trail. Depending on how we felt, we'd either check out the view from Mendota Saddle, or head down Liberty Bell trail to make a loop.
Hiked up the road to the switchbacks, where we had seen a trail depart a couple days earlier. This trail was on my gps map, so I assumed this was the Sheridan Crosscut. It seemed appropriately steep for a short while, but then traversed to the west much farther than I expected the Crosscut to. At this point I had better cell service, and was able to see that the actual Sheridan Crosscut was a couple hundred yards farther up Imogene Pass Road. Oh well, I wasn't feeling super spry anyways, and this trail provided some nice views of Telluride, so we just kept going.
After a mile or so, we were on Jud Wiebe trail, and shortly thereafter to the bottom of Liberty Bell. Start up LB for a minute, but I decided since I'd already been up that trail, I'd rather see something new. So we continued back on Jud Wiebe to Epees Park. From there, we got on Deep Creek trail and took that to Mill Creek.
From there, we just headed down the Deep Creek shortcut to Mill Creek road, taking the trail that cuts off the switch back. Then we followed the bike path to the dirt road by the gas station, which cuts across to the other side of the San Miguel River, where we picked up the river trail to complete the loop.
This was a nice easy-ish loop, and between this and the route a couple days earlier, we managed to make a loop about half way around the Telluride box canyon. |
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