The Pattern of Closed Roads

As it slowly seems to becoming a pattern trips that involve just Kevin and I don't seem to go quite as planned. Our original plan was to hike Crown Peak in the Comanche Wilderness. Well that didn't go as planned; there was to much snow and we hadn't brought snow shoes. So we bailed on that plan and decided to attempt it from the North side; which of course did not go as planned to much snow. I did end up towing a jeep out of a rut up on the north side. This was all a bust so we decided to just look for any mountain we could go summit. We settled on West White Pine Mountain in the Poudre Wilderness. This proved to be much more difficult since the closet road was closed from the west end. This added 6 easily driven miles to the hike but that didn't stop us. We continued on with our quest to get away from people and summit some mountain. We march on and eventually began our ascent of the mountain but as the light was fading we decided to make camp for the night on the east face of the mountain overlooking Fort Collins. With some spectacular views we settled in for what proved to be a less windy night than we had been expecting. The next morning it was very cold. I still decided to try and get some good sunrise pics; sadly not from the summit. It all worked out as we headed up the mountain. We spotted some elk on the way up and then we reached some patchy snow. Then we trekked around on the summit which although only has one true summit it had many slight lower summits up near the top. We then reached the true summit  which had the remains of what appeared to be a burned fire tower. This was cool but with the wind and the time we decided to head out. 

Likability 6.5/10 This area has not recovered from the fire that came through this area 3 years ago so I would recommend going else where.