Anyone familiar with Dimick Gulch (between North Crestone Creek and San Isabel Creek)? Found a couple maps that seem to suggest there is an unnamed trail up Dimick gulch that then goes up and over a ridge and connects to the San Isabel trail. Been fooled by this before, only to arrive and not find even a hint of a trail, game trail or otherwise.
Might this trail actually exist?
Dimick Gulch Question
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Dimick Gulch Question
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Re: Dimick Gulch Question
It's shown on the MapBuilder topos (see caltopo.com), which sources tracks from OSM, which I think is crowdsourced, possibly from the likes of Strava.
That's mostly conjecture, but if a trail shows up on MapBuilder topos that's generally a good indication that it exists.
It's labeled "San Isabel Trail (FS858)" there, so it's probably documented on a USFS site as well.
Lastly, the trees are pretty thick in there, but starting where they thin out around 10,500' the satellite imagery shows a clear trail.
None of that speaks to maintenance so it might be as good as Spanish Creek.
That's mostly conjecture, but if a trail shows up on MapBuilder topos that's generally a good indication that it exists.
It's labeled "San Isabel Trail (FS858)" there, so it's probably documented on a USFS site as well.
Lastly, the trees are pretty thick in there, but starting where they thin out around 10,500' the satellite imagery shows a clear trail.
None of that speaks to maintenance so it might be as good as Spanish Creek.
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Re: Dimick Gulch Question
The trail up the gulch is there, but only for the first quarter to half mile or so (essentially following an old mining road). It quickly disappears into thick weeds / willows / brush / deadfall, however, and you have to bushwack and gain the ridge much earlier than you'd prefer to get out of it. Ultimately I don't recommend it. Also, the 'trail' leading into the San Isabel basin from the ridge from Dimick Gulch is non-existent at this point.
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Re: Dimick Gulch Question
Yeah scratch all that, I was looking at the wrong creek!
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Re: Dimick Gulch Question
This makes me sad.... But good to know.interloper wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:10 am The trail up the gulch is there, but only for the first quarter to half mile or so (essentially following an old mining road). It quickly disappears into thick weeds / willows / brush / deadfall, however, and you have to bushwack and gain the ridge much earlier than you'd prefer to get out of it. Ultimately I don't recommend it. Also, the 'trail' leading into the San Isabel basin from the ridge from Dimick Gulch is non-existent at this point.
And this makes me laugh
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