3 miles of hiking • 1000' elevation gain •
Went on a family trip to Denver. Had a brief window in the morning to do a hike with my dad. We went to one of his favorite short hikes in the area. Rather than take the trail we followed the west ridge from the road on up to summit of Chief Mt. Better views, more varied terrain, melts out earlier, and no people on an otherwise justifiably popular hike! There was thunder and rain minutes after we reached the summit above timberline at 10:30am! Off we went back the way we came up. Great short subalpine hike!
