We'll meet at 7:15 AM at the Coors Tek Parking Lot across the street from the CMC Building in Goldem for a no later than 7:30 AM departure.
The trailhead for our hike is the Douty Draw Trailhead near Eldorado State Park
The round trip driving distance is 32 miles. (32 miles x $0.30 per mile = $9.60 to be split equally between all passengers in a car)
Suzanne Allexansuzanneallexan@gmail.com303-330-4750 mobile
The Goshawk Ridge portion of this hike was described in the Mile High Mountaineer in July, 2017.
Follow this link to to the article.: http://hikingdenver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/02_MHM-JULY-060917-FINAL.pdf
Goshawk Ridge has spectacular vistas, geology, history, flora and fauna, railroad development, agriculture and recreation. Best of all, the treasure is packed into an easy, enjoyable, hike.. The hike offers huge slabs of ripple rock that were formed by waves of water “rippling” over a sandy beach more than 100 mil- lion years ago. The trail wanders through an ecosystem of Ponderosa pine and cactus. Hikers pass remnants of a 1907-planned townsite that never birthed, an early 1900 railroad workers’ camp and a ranching cab- in built with a metal sign for a roof that advertizes a now defunct cola. At the lower end of the ridge, Goshawk Trail tees into the Fowler Trail. The rocky hogback along the Fowler Trail holds a narrow-gauge railroad “cut” that David Moffat scrapped in favor of the current route west.
Goshawk Ridge from Doudy Draw adds extra mileage to the hike.
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