For all of you hikers out there, add this to your 100 trails you must hike before you die list.  It is a 10 mile circular trail, traveling over a crest and looping back to the start point.

When I was young, 11, 12, 13, and 14, we lived on Grand Mesa (Colorado) every summer due to my health. 

(It is just an hour away). 

Every week for the first two years, Momma, my brother and I would hike this trail. 

 I don’t remember it being such a hard thing to do, but whew! It is!

(Pant, Pant, Wheeze…man the things I do to post on a blog!!! Whew!)

On the crest both sides of the path drop off steeply allowing the hiker to look into Mesa County on the right

See the bookcliffs in the distance?

 and Delta County on the left.  Grand Mesa has 100’s of lakes. 

We gradually get back to tree line.

Walking along the lower edge

Until we get back to the cars. 

There you have it, a top of the world tour from Grand Mesa, Colorado!