Backpacking Eagles Nest Wilderness / Colorado

[@wildflower_gypsy]

incredible footage of the mountain goat!

[@ChristyCrosby-e4y]

I just love your videos!!!!!!

[@shredhiker6209]

Thank you so much for watching.

[@longwildernesswalks]

LMAO! You gotta put your shoe on properly first 😋😋 What a beautiful trip. Thank you for sharing with us. I had to call off my Sierra trip this year as well. Setteling on the Bechler in YSNP instead the first week of October. Should be a blast! Again, thanks for sharing.

[@shredhiker6209]

Love Bechler. I’ll be back in Yellowstone in a few weeks, doing a big trip over Fawn Pass then looping back around to Sportsman Lake & up to Crescent Lake.

[@wildflower_gypsy]

The scenery you shot is amazing, and i loved the narration and no music. I’m flying to Denver for a concert in mid-June and looking for some backpacking to throw in!

[@shredhiker6209]

Thanks so much! This was a really wonderful area, I’d like to go back & see more of it (will definitely bring micro spikes if it’s another early season trip) I think it’s a great option that’s a pretty short drive from Denver. A few days before this we hiked a few days on the Colorado trail near Jefferson, it was all snow free out that way.

[@wildflower_gypsy]

Oh that’s awesome, i spend most of my backpacking trips in the sierras (kinda section hiking the SHR the past few years) but looking forward do doing a short trip before my big sierra trip in the summer. If you know, were there options to go cross country and were there any places that campfires were allowed?

[@shredhiker6209]

@@wildflower_gypsy I know people do some cross country and technical routes, up near Red Buffalo Pass & Gore Lake. I had wanted to explore that area but that pass had a lot of snow. There was another group we saw at the end of day 2 who'd planned to go up that way, we saw them the next morning scouting it out and then they disappeared from view, assuming they made it. I believe above 11k is the campfire cutoff there , we saw a few fire rings around that first camp, but everything was way too wet. I'm actually going out with the same group this summer for a Sierra trip, we're hiking Onion Valley to Whitney!

[@jasonkamm5537]

This area has long been on my radar since it's only about 2.5 hrs from our home. I'd like to do a trip from Vail to Frisco over Red Buffalo and Eccles passes and maybe a spur to Gore lake

[@shredhiker6209]

We actually went out there hoping to do a side trip to Gore Lake, but Red Buffalo Pass had more snow up top than we were comfortable with. Another group camped somewhere around there during night #2 and we saw them in the distance scouting it out earlier that day, then headed up the following morning. It’s really a remarkable area, I’d love to go back with a little less snow & a few more days to explore.