Afternoon Trip to the Flatirons near Boulder, Colorado

Pic of the Flatirons from Chautauqua Park

After watching the toxic sludge that was the Bears game today, my wife and I decided to clear our heads and go for a afternoon hike up to the the Flatirons. I was particularly excited about this since I am a big ultra-running fan and Boulder is home to several well-known pro ultra-runners such as legend Scott Jurek. So to hike their stomping grounds is pretty cool for me.

View from near trailhead looking roughly northward

We headed up the trail, which unsuprisingly headed upwards pretty steeply and at a trail junction we had a choice of heading on a loop around or heading upwards some more toward the peak of one of the Flatirons. We actually wanted to go around but misread the post and headed up. I was thankful for the mistake! the trail we chose ended high up on the Flatirons where it appeared only the rock climbers could continue and came with some great views of the flatlands below. The last couple hundred feet were actually more of an all fours scramble in the general direction of a trail. After a couple pics and shooting the bull with a pair of rock climbers we headed back down in a light rain.

Looking straight up the second Flatiron