Hiking – Bob and Betty Lakes

We will meet 6:15 am at the Coors Tek Parking Lot in Golden, for a PROMPT 6:30am departure  Here’s a link to it in Google Maps ( https://goo.gl/maps/VLqhSXXK5D52  ). We can also arrange meeting in Nederland/Eldora, or in Arvada near the junction of CO93 and CO72 (Coal Creek Canyon Road)

We will start our hike at the Hessie Trailhead.  Here is a Google Maps link to the trailhead: https://goo.gl/maps/JWr5ihBZSTDzz3z99 .  We expect to meet at the trailhead at 7:00 – 7:10am

Much of this hike is in the forest, but the last 1 – 1.5 miles each way to tBob and Betty Lakes is above timberline where we are rewarded with great views of the Continental Divide, Rollins Pass, and the lakes.  Here’a a link to the writeup for this hike in AllTrails:  https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/colorado/bob-betty-lakes-trail-via-king-lake-trail 

This is a CMC Bobcats trip.  All Bobcats trips are open to everyone

The Bobcats’ mission is to ensure a variety of challenging CMC trips, mostly on weekdays, all year long, for our mostly 50+ constituents. We don’t have dues or elections and we invite ALL CMC members to sign up for any Bobcat trip. You can search the CMC Calendar for Bobcat trips any time by selecting “Bobcats Section” in the CMC Trip Calendar “Section" pull-down menu. We send out a monthly email to our members with all the coming month’s trips, just after those trips are activated

I will send out weather information as we get closer to the hike.

Round trip driving distance from Coors Tek to/from the Hessie Trailhead is 68 miles, so the carpool share will be