Hiking Hall Ranch On April 27 my husband and I went for a nearly 10-mile loop hike at Hall Ranch. It’s just outside of Lyons, but still in Boulder County. The loop trail goes clockwise up Nighthawk Trail, connects along Nelson Loop, and finishes up with Bitterbrush Trail. Although it …
Winter Hike to Loch Lake On a previous weekend we had snowshoed to Mills Lake, but couldn’t take many pictures because it was snowing the whole time. A few weeks later, in mid-April, we went back to the same area of Rocky Mountain National Park to hike 5.5 miles back …
Allenspark Trail & Finch Lake-Pear Lake Trail Winter Hike Allenspark Trail is a a trail that starts at the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park in Allenspark, CO. There are several options for destinations from the trail, and that day we were aiming for Ouzel Falls. We were interesed in …
Winter Hike to Lost Lake At the end of March we went on a hike to Lost Lake, which is located just outside of Nederland. You park on County Highway 130 in designated parking areas. When we got there at 8:30 am it was already starting to get busy. Lost …
Brainard Lake and Long Lake Snowshoe Trek Back in mid-March my husband and I did a 6.7-mile snowshoe trek in the Brainard Lake Recreation Area to take some photos of the snowy mountains before the melt. We had been to Brainard Lake before and wanted to see a bit more …
Dear Readers, Welcome to our new website, Takahashi Outdoors! This website will be a collaboration with my husband Yoshiyuki. Migrating from Digital Botany I have been thinking for some time that my previous blog, Digital Botany (www.digital-botany.com), was in need of re-branding. The name “Digital Botany” was meant to focus …
