Hikers: Pat, Jodie, Lincoln, Luna
Weather: 70s, sunny
Miles: 23
Elevation Gain: 2,798 ft
Duration: 2 days
Jodie and I wanted to do a couple days of backpacking in preparation for our upcoming vacation to Colorado. I also wanted to do some trail maintenance on my trail, so we decided to do a backpacking trip in conjunction with trail maintenance. The plan was to hike in and camp near the junction of the Dry River Trail and the Isolation Trail on Friday. After setting up camp, we would hike up the Isolation Trail to the Davis Path and do a couple hours of trail work. Saturday, we planned to do a day hike up either the Dry River Trail or the Eisenhower Trail and potentially loop over to Mt. Isolation. Sunday would be a couple hours of trail maintenance before hiking out. . . that was the plan anyway.
Things ended up going a little different. Friday went pretty much according to plan, though Lincoln did get some porcupine quills in his face during our trail maintenance. Jodie and I spent most of our maintenance time brushing the trail corridor, which is quite over grown in many locations, though I did clean drainages as well. It was a big help to have a second pair of hands. Even so, there is a lot more work to be done.
Saturday didn’t go according to plan. We woke up and go prepared for our day hike, but noticed it was quite windy. We weren’t sure how windy it would be above treeline, and we weren’t sure how the dogs would react if it was really windy, so we decided to do Mt. Isolation first. The hike to Mt. Isolation went well, and the views were nice from the summit. We decided to continue on the Davis Path towards Mt. Davis, and about half way there Jodie twisted her ankle. The same ankle she broke back in November. Needless to say, the ankle has yet to regain full strength. We were about 8 miles from the nearest road at this point, but luckily it was good enough to walk on with some pain.
We made a rather slow descent back to the campsite and decided to hike out that evening. It wasn’t until about 7:30pm that we reached the car. We started hiking around 9:00am, and covered about 13 miles that day (about 8 with Jodie’s bad ankle).
Lincoln and Luna in the Tent
Lincoln and Luna at Isolation's summit
Lincoln, Luna, and Jodie at the summit
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