Colorado Outdoors in Clear Creek County
Posted by Jamie | Posted in Outdoors | Posted on 27-01-2010-05-2008
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Snowshoe in the Colorado Outdoors in Clear Creek County
It starts as a yearning. The need to escape the hustle and bustle of the ski resorts and crowded highways. The desire to become an adventurer and make your own mark on a pristine trail through woods. The longing to feel the crisp, cold, mountain air deep in your lungs as you watch the sunshine glint through the flocked evergreens. Exploring Colorado’s great outdoors on snowshoes is an activity that quickly can turn from a novelty, into a hobby, into a passion. And with more than 70 percent of our community covered by public lands and trails, Clear Creek County is the perfect place to begin your Colorado adventure.
Snowshoeing in Colorado’s great outdoors experienced a resurgence in the early 1990s. Before that it was an activity that had been relegated to memory, kept alive by old leather-and-wood decorator pieces hanging above fireplaces in rustic cabins. In an earlier day hardly anyone used snowshoes for fun – they were a cumbersome necessity used to move around when snow piled deep. Not anymore.
When you’re getting a group of friends or family together for a day of fun in the snow, snowshoeing is the perfect activity. If you can walk, you can snowshoe. Many of Clear Creek County’s best summer hiking and mountain biking trails are transformed magically into a snowshoeing wonderland during the winter months.
Make sure you go to the Trails page on the clearcreekcounty.orgwebsite for detailed map and descriptions of some of the trails in Clear Creek County.
