Skyline Divide Trailblazer hike

18 Senior Trailblazers met at the Senior Center to begin our hike today. Wow! Since it's too large of a group to hike as one, we split up into 2 separate groups. One group hiked a little quicker and the second a little slower so it was great for everyone. We only hiked to the ridge, so it was about 4 1/2 miles round trip total today. The full Skyline Divide hike is 9 miles round trip if completed according to the guidebooks.

after hiking through the forest for a couple of miles we came to the open meadows just before the ridge. The flowers were just beginning to show, mostly Lupine and Valerian.

just had to share Helen's hat!

Some Parks workers past us and told us about the butterfly research they were doing in the area.

Views from the ridge

I liked this picture of the tree just showing through the fog on our way out.

Endomondo stats:
4.44 total miles hiked
4268 Min. altitude
5908 Max. altitude