November 08, 2019 06:29PM
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Today I made an impromptu side trip from Montrose to Cerro Summit to check it out. As it was an unplanned trip I didn't have my camera or blaze orange gear, but I did have my four-legged hiking partner Jack. Getting to the summit wye and station area from the highway was only a matter of a few minutes after squeezing past the locked gate. The summit siding area is just a mass of cinders. Walked west along the grade a ways, but couldn't get my dog past the gate, so drove down to the mouth of Hairpin Creek, and we hiked up dirt road P76. Some hunters came down the road in a pickup truck and said the road was open to the public to the top of the mesa. Not having brought the map either, we walked right past the RR grade crossing to the posted gate and stock corral about a third of a mile further up (I had been fixated on what appeared to be a grade further up). On the way back down I noticed the heavy cinder coating on the actual grade crossing the road. We followed the RR grade down hill about a third of a mile into the Hairpin Creek Valley. I thought about following the grade all the way to Cedar Creek, but didn't want to add another hour to the hike, since I will have to come back shortly with my camera and hike out the entire Hairpin loop (meeting another group of hunters also influenced this decision). From what I could see, the grade is in good condition both on the hillside as well as in the creek bottom, although we were not far enough down to see the hairpin turn itself. I hope to make a photo report soon on a return to this beautiful and historic area.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/08/2019 08:48PM by Olaf Rasmussen.
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