Eldorado Canyon Area Wandering (Mickey Mouse Wall)

Trip Date: Nov 19, 2017

Interactive map here:  ​https://caltopo.com/m/5RPH

Saw lots of deer immediately once I left the trail just before reaching the train tracks.  

Looking north

Looking south. NOT the way to go.

An old passenger train that used to run through Eldorado Canyon on these tracks.

At first I tried to go above the tunnel and go directly up the side of the Mickey Mouse Wall.  Scrambling looked fairly serious so I backed off and descended south and crossed the tracks there.

Hidden arch

Looking south towards Golden

I had originally intended on bushwacking all the way to the summit of Eldorado Mt.  but it looked like private property up there (lots of commercial radio antennas) so I stopped at a minor unnamed summit about 1000 ft south east of it.  The views did not dissappoint. 

Looking North towards South Boulder Mt., Bear Peak (the flatirons on the right) and RMNP/Indian Peaks on the left. One of my absolute favorite views of 2017.

From there I descended down the other side to the Eldorado Canyon State Park side.  Crossed the tracks again (I'm not recommending this to anyone...) and took the Rattlesnake Gulch trail and eventually the Fowler trail back towards Boulder.  From here I retraced many of the same areas until I got back to the Flatirons Vista TH.  

I wish I knew more about clouds. Alpen glow on Longs Peak.