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Peak over Tunnel Gulch San Isabel National Forest just outside Hancock Colorado

Alpine Tunnel Trail Photo Essay One

 

 

Alpine Tunnel Trail Photo Essay One

Beautiful very moderate day hike for the whole family up and the old railroad bed

Trail head is locate on FS 295, Hancock Road. Around 0.4 tenths of a mile past what is left of the ghost down of Hancock, Colorado.

Hike out and back is 5.6 (five miles and six tenths) miles.  The valley to your right on the way up has bountiful meadow and wildlife.

 

Creek coming down tunnel gulch at the trailhead Alpine Tunnel Trail Photo Essay One
Creek coming down tunnel gulch at the trailhead

 

Peak over Tunnel Gulch San Isabel National Forest just outside Hancock Colorado
Peak over Tunnel Gulch

 

Alpine Tunnel Trail Head in the San Isabel National Forest takes you up the old railroad bed to the collapsed tunnel
Trail Head Sign

 

Colorado Living is Attitude, Tough enough to climb 50 plus 14er’s, backpack the 500 plus miles of the Colorado Trail
Colorado Living is Attitude,
Tough enough to climb 50 plus 14er’s, backpack the 500 plus miles of the Colorado Trail Get the Attitude: http://ow.ly/9ncu30lluOB

 

Around the gate and down the trail we go
Down the Trail

 

Being a an Old Railroad Line the Trail is wide and Easy to Hike, in on the Alpine Tunnel Trail
Being a an Old Railroad Line the Trail is wide and Easy to Hike

 

Colorado Trail Marker on Alpine Tunnel Trail
Colorado Trail Marker

 

Sawmill Creek, Lumber and a Train Wreck, on the trail to Alpine Tunnel, San Isabel National Forest, Hancock Colorado a great hike to wear yoga pants on
Sawmill Creek, Lumber and a Train Wreck

 

Approaching the Junction of Williams Pass Trail, hiking down the Alpine Tunnel Trail 7 miles south of the Ghost Town of St. Elmo, Colorado
Approaching the Junction of Williams Pass Trail

 

Two Miles up to Williams Pass, San Isabel National Forest Colorado in the Fall
Two Miles up to Williams Pass

 

In the beginning the trail was good, with conditions changing San Isabel National Forest Colorado
In the Beginning the trail was Good

 

Snow was an issue for the ore line from mining camp to mining camp through the mountains to Hancock, Leadville, or St. Elmo during the winter months in Colorado Rocky Mountains
Snow was an issue for the ore line from mining camp to mining camp through the mountains

 

 

 

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Don’t Let Our Government become very reckless with Nature and Our Public Lands!
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