Acorn Creek Trail

To see some fall colors, we headed up I-70 to Sliverthorn for our hike. Katie worked on Saturday, which was the nicer day, but with a storm overnight, the trees were snow-covered on our way up, which excited us. As soon as we went through the Eisenhower Tunnel at Loveland Pass, that snow was gone and it was normal conditions. It was too bad we didn't plan to do something before Loveland Pass, and it's too bad we didn't stop in the morning to take a few photos. But it was early and we thought that the conditions would be the same on the other side of the pass.

We got to the trailhead around 10 am and started our hike which was supposed to be a 5-and-a-half mile hike with a small amount of elevation gain. But we missed the turnoff and headed straight up the mountainside making the hike much more challenging. We didn't make it to the end of the trai, but instead, we ate lunch after we hit 2 and a half miles into the hike before turning around. The views likely would have been a little better if we summited, but it was an extra mile (one way) and an extra 1,000 feet in elevation gain which would have been killer.

This area was nearly peak colors, but there was still a lot of green on the mountainsides. I think another week will be perfect here, but who knows what area we'll end up in next week!