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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Wed Mar 16 18:29:13 MDT 2022)

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I/we took a nice little (4.5 hour, 4.8 mile) up Sullivan Gulch -- west of Drake in the Big Thompson Canyon between Estes Park and Loveland, CO, on the southeast flank of Crosier Mountain -- with long cross-country segments over to part of the Crosier trail and back. A memorable and scenic highlight was a huge balanced boulder perched on a ridge on the way back off-trail.

I didn't even know this hike existed... Ed Ogle clued me to it recently with a Facebook posting. The trailhead 2.2 mi west of Drake is small and unmarked until you start up the route on foot, easy to not notice driving by.

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