High Country Fishing Trip

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My GF and I have done a high country fishing trip the first week of July for the last 3 years. I've been on an informal mission to fish every lake in the Weminuche.......

Very nice pics, Poser. Thanks for sharing. Nice area. I've driven 550 quite a few times but never gone into the backcountry.

Louis L'Amour set a few western stories in that area, and I've tried to figure out some of the story settings over the years with the Colorado Atlas and Google Earth. I know the setting of one novel, Sackett, was the backcountry on Vallecito Creek with a story of finding gold in a little hidden valley. I think that's probably Roell Creek or Rock Creek? But I'm not sure. You've probably been on all those creeks.

 

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Very nice pics, Poser. Thanks for sharing. Nice area. I've driven 550 quite a few times but never gone into the backcountry.

Louis L'Amour set a few western stories in that area, and I've tried to figure out some of the story settings over the years with the Colorado Atlas and Google Earth. I know the setting of one novel, Sackett, was the backcountry on Vallecito Creek with a story of finding gold in a little hidden valley. I think that's probably Roell Creek or Rock Creek? But I'm not sure. You've probably been on all those creeks.

That story is set up Johnsnon Creek aka Grizzly Gulch which heads up from Vallecito Creek over Columbine Pass into Chicago Basin. There is actually an old mine just off Columbine Pass. The lake there, unfortunately, does not hold any fish -probably got fished out by Chicago Basi traffic.