Weminuche snapshots

Posted By on August 11, 2009

For the third summer in a row I had the opportunity to spend a week backpacking the Weminuche Wilderness (WW) of southern Colorado. This we focused on the Pine (Los Pinos) River headwaters and had a BALL – great weather (well, except for one day spent cowering in our tents as hail and lightning lashed our campsite just below treeline), good fellowship, and LOTS of cutthroat.

We started our trip at the Poison Park trailhead above Williams Creek Res. and headed north into the WW with our first campsite on the edge of Iona park on the bank of Hossick Creek. Hossick proved to be full of brookies and I great a great afternoon with the 1 wt. and a handful of stimulators. The second day camp was at the trail crossing of the east fork of Weminuche creek. This was the best campsite I’ve seen in sometime – someone had even made a “couch” out of a large section of downed pine bark. It’s the little things that are appreciated out there; like something with a “back” to sit on.

Our third camp was on the Pine River itself, just below Granite Lake. From here, we spent two days moving up and down river to fish on day trips. Moose and bear tracks everywhere, coyote serenades every night, and plenty of nice cuts that would rise to caddis almost all day!

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