Hiking with Dennis 2014

Once again Dennis takes the readers on hikes this season. If you are near South Fork look them up every morning at the visitors Center at 9 am.

Dennis wrote:

We started at Beaver Cr. road below the Million Res. dam and crossed the dam and followed Million Cr. as far as we could. We left the creek bed and went up, up and more up to the saddle East of Million Res. It took us about 1 hour to reach the saddle and then we took off to the South, up the canyon where the headwater of Million Cr. started.  We found LOTS of Elk sign all over the saddle and down in the canyon, looked like a highway instead of just a game trail.  We followed game trails as long as they were heading the same direction that we were, the rest of the time we made our own trails.

We made it to the top of ridge in time for lunch, got a few sprinkles while chowing down but not enough for raingear.  We followed the ridge until we thought we were directly above the parking lot South of the res. and then we started down toward it.  We were lucky and came out on the old road South of the parking lot and then on around the West side of the res. and back to the truck, arriving about 2PM.......

It was a pretty strenuous hike, Bob & David would both agree;  the Elk have an advantage with 4-legged locomotion while we were limited to 2-legged operation most of the time.  Sometimes we used all 4 limbs to get where we needed to go.........

Come to the VC Monday for a great hike led by Wayne Moulds, be there B4 9AM...........