Today we woke up eaaarly (before 6:00) to do some hiking at Lory State Park. I am finding that spring is the best time for hiking in the foothills, because as the snow melts in the upper altitudes it cascades down to the foothills. This creates a lot of ‘spontaneous’ waterfalls at the lower elevations.
We took the ‘moderate to difficult’ Arthur’s Rock trail, to the peak of Arthur’s Rock – there definitely needs to be some standardization on trail difficulty ratings, because I would have rated this one pretty easy. Especially in comparison to many of the other ‘easy’ hikes that I’ve done! It was a moderate uphill climb most of the time, with some extremely mild “bouldering” towards the peak. ~1.7 miles one-way, so it’s good for an early Sunday morning hike. I would guess that it probably took us ~1-2 hours to do the hike – I know that we pulled into the Visitor’s Center at exactly 8:05 AM (they open at 8:00…) and were back in time for lunch around 11:00-11:30.
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