Thursday we made a short trip up Beaver Creek to check it out for fishing. The flow it good, there is a good amount of state wildlife area on the stream so I might be able to catch a few brookies up there. The driver up is not too long and the last few miles are pretty nice. Although I noticed on the way up that there are plenty of scares of past fires and other problems.
A lot of the trail up passes through some pretty dry and poor vegetation types but even they have blooms.
Cactus flower. There was a prickly pear cactus with a yellow flower but the picture did not turn out.
Not sure what this was but nice flowers.
There were several old ranches up there and they did irrigate the bottoms for hay but suppose it was just way too tough to keep it up so now it is all 35 acre ranchetts that people buy thinking they can run a herd of horses… in this country 35 acres doesn’t support one horse… (with out the hay bottoms.
I am thinking this may have been the old Beaver Creek community church/school by the fact it is one room and even spaced windows? I was told there is an old settlers cemetery up in there. But checking out Google Earth it appears to be back down the road about half a mile. It said private property so we didn’t get out and check but maybe we will later?
Granted it is not a full fledge “SEAN ADVENTURE” but we found mud and got the tires muddy… but none on the roof.
When we got to the end of the road I got the pictures of the sign boards… read the important info… damn!… 10.5 miles hike, with a 3000 ft. elevation gain but plan for 3 days to do the 10 miles? not me… ! So I will fish from here down and maybe just a little up. When I get the chance. So far we have been here a month and I have not had time to get the rods out, or even worry about fishing… but I am hoping.
On the way out caught this guy really working over that bull thistle flower… and so was our Thursday..
Today was another trip to the Springs, more GS#3 watch… and then back to fiddle with small stuff.
WD0AJG