CO Wheeling-Saxon Mountain Georgetown Colorado

[errinjan]

This is probably the roughest non technical trail in Colorado, at least the roughest we've been on. On the traildamage website it's rated a 2-3. I have taken this trail twice now. I quite possibly will never take it again. It is very rocky, choppy, bumpy and a downright miserable ride. But the views are incredible, having run it both directions I would recommend coming down the mountain into Georgetown. You get a much better view of the surrounding scenery. You can access the top by way of several different trails rated from very easy (Spring Gulch-which is long and boring) to downright Nasty (Spring Creek-This is the most interesting by far). There is also Ute Rd (turned out to be every rough also) and Cascade Creek which is probably my choice if I had to go back.
Here's some video from ascending Saxon,

http://youtu.be/PPsdHmz12Bk

[treedawg]

Thanks for the vid,I love a good shelf road..

[errinjan]

Your welcome, the big rocks that fall on the road makes it interesting to say the least. I hear Black Bear Pass is a terrifying shelf road, but the views are spectacular!

[treedawg]

It is on my bucket list,not the wife's list..Maybe 2012 hopefully..I will leave her in town shopping when I go do Black Bear.She read the reviews in the trail guide book.

[errinjan]

I hope to do Red Cone real soon, wife is a little uneasy about it. But she did fine on Saxon which got very narrow in spots. I was more worried about falling rock

[Guest]

Red Cone and Black Bear are both two of my favorites! Neither trail is all that difficult, I been trying to get my friends to do Iron Chest, an Holy Cross for several years, but they said they were not ready, yet.

[Guest]

errinjan, what kind of camera did you use? nice, clear video!

[errinjan]

It's a Samsung TL 220 point and shoot camera. Takes great video, I rarely take stills with it. I mount it on Mini Gecko Mount. The camera needs serviced (some dust on the sensor-I hope) black spots in the video upper right hand corner. They're planning a night run over Red cone this weekend, I want to take a run during the day first. I've seen alot of video of Black Bear, it looks awesome. I've heard it's gotten really narrow in spots. Holy Cross looks fun, there's a run coming up for it this month or early next. Iron Chest looks good but it's 3 1/2 hours away. I've sold my tow rig and trailer. We may start going further out next summer but there is so much just right around us.

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