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Author: trangyRides
Activity: Hiking
State: Colorado (CO)
Distance: 2.86 mi 
Difficulty: 5 / 10
Rating:   1 rating(s)
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Winter hike to Mills Lake and Glacier Gorge

DIRECTIONS + WAYPOINTS: helping you find your way

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Dist: 2.86 mi Points: 523
Time: none Speed: 0.0 mph Pace: 0:00 / mi
Mills Lake Track

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From Glacier Gorge TH, go S on Mills Lake Trail

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Go straight at 4-way staying on Mills Lake Trail

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Cross creek on bridge

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Tumbling white waves crash from a 20-ft ledge at Alberta Falls; spur trails lead to the top of the falls for partial views down to the Bierstadt Moraine

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Stay R @ Y on Mills Lake Trail, wrapping around large outcrops of Glacier Knobs

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L @ Y on Mills Lake Trail; Glacier Knobs rise sharply to N

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Pass the torrents of Glacier Falls and start slight climb into Glacier Gorge; Glacier Creek rustles between the lodgepoles

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Mills Lake and tarn to N Jewel Lake framed by Half Mtn. to the E and Thatchtop to the W and rugged folds of the Continental Divide to the S; on clear days, Keyboard of the Winds on Longs Peak's visible to SE; retrace route to car





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