On Tuesday we drove into Rocky Mountain National Park over to the Bear Lake trailhead. We snowshoed up to Emerald lake, which was about 1.8 miles one way. It was a little more aggressive in some spots than what we were use to. Last year we went to the same trailhead, but went to Lake Bierstadt. That trail was nice and was downhill initially.
On Wednesday we drove back into the park and went to the Lawn Lake trailhead. We hiked up about 1.4 miles to where the trail splits. At that point you can go to either Ypsilon Lake or Lawn Lake. We didn’t go to either lake because they were a few more miles away. Lawn Lake has some interesting history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_Lake_Dam
At an early stage of this trail, we came across some blood drops that accompanied a set of tracks that belonged to a Mountain Lion. The tracks zig-zagged across the trail several times until we finally saw them leading to a small rock outcropping. We were really intrigued by this because the night before we were watching one of those nature programs on big cats of the world.
