Boulder Lake

When you head north on Highway 9 out of Silverthorne about 7.5 miles on the left hand side of the road is Rock Creek Road. If you are not looking for it you will pass it. It's just after a curve in the road and is barely visible. However, if you find yourself on it get ready for an adventure! A 4WD car is recommended and the road can get a little rough. There are several direction you can take once on the road and all lead to fantastic hikes.
Boulder Lake is on the Gore Range Trail and can be accessed from the Rock Creek Trailhead. It is just under 3 miles to the lake. The trail is a lot of ups and downs and gets your heart rate up both directions.
This will definitely be on my list to go back to in the spring.

Mohawk Lakes

Just past my house is a dirt road that leads to a rock road. At the end of the rock road is a trail that leads to Lower and Upper Mohawk Lakes. It is a short 2 mile hike to the upper lake, but it will get your heart rate going. Along the way there is old mining equipment and a beautiful waterfall. My first attempt at getting to the upper lake was unsuccessful. I started out in April and was blocked by giant snow drifts just after reaching the lower lake.

 There was a village of old run down cabins. This is one of them.

 

Here the lower lake is frozen.

This was my sad attempt to hike through the snow drift only to realize I still wasn't going to make it to the upper lake. So I slid down on my jacket

I also encountered signs of Bigfoot!

Here is a before and after of the waterfall:

And the second attempt I made it to the upper lake!!

And an excellent look back at the lower lake

My first geocache

Geocaching is the sport of finding hidden objects using gps coordinates. There is a wonderful app for your phone called cgeo that I used. I went for a hike around my house and found Maggie's Cache on peak 9 in Breckenridge, co.