Silver Dollar Lake

Since we are in Colorado and it is such a beautiful place we plan on going on probably a hike a week. After looking for some ideas, I thought we would go to Silver Dollar Lake first because it was a short, difficult hike considered intermediate. When I brought it up to Brian he thought it would be a good hike for our first one........well we got more then we expected. The trail was hard to follow, I am almost positive it was much further then it was listed at and we had snow and water galore (the snow was so deep that if you stepped in wrong you ended up at your waist). It was quite the experience but we meet some fun people. When we were lost at one point one guy helped us and he actually knew someone Brian works with (I guess he does the guys taxes), we then met three people from Boston who were here for a fun hiking trip, then a few other locals. We had quite a fun day and were pretty tired after the long day hiking.

Beginning our drive up

Cool, large waterfall

Beginning of our hike with snow right on the trail

Second place we were lost, first place we were truly lost but we saw a glimpse of the first lake

Full view of first lake, when we came back down it was more melted and the ice cracked then our first glimpse

Muddy, creek that we were really happy to have rocks to climb on through

Finally fully past the first lake

We made it.

We climbed across that crazy snow bank twice, luckily after all the snow we only fell down to our waist once or twice

We took a shortcut on the way down so we didn't go back through the place that got us totally lost.

On our way up we were really sure we were lost until we saw this sign and it was a good place for the sign because it pointed to a snow pile and it would have been a confusing place for us for a little bit.

One of the several lakes we passed on our way up.

The prettiest lake that we have seen and it is for sale

Along with these two places, definitely a pretty spot

Another waterfall that I tried to catch on the drive down

Overall, it was a beautiful hike, with some crazy adventures, and we both got some sun. It was a great first hike once the hike was done and we had some time to just relax.