The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (448 pages) - Chavez Loop (5.1 miles)

In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper--a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour...

Let's discuss "The Diamond Eye" while hiking the Chavez and Beaver Brook Loop.

Copies of the book are available from the Denver Public Library. eBay is a good source for used copies (I suggest good and better quality).

We'll meet at the kiosk by the vault toilets at 5pm, starting down the trail at 5:15pm. Sunset is at 8:29pm so we'll have plenty of light. 5.1 miles, 1,112 foot elevation gain (it's a down and back up trail). 2mph pace, not super fast since we'll be discussing the book.

https://www.jeffco.us/DocumentCenter/View/14152/Beaver-Brook-map

I prefer to hike without pets or children.

You'll want normal hiking stuff, hat, water, sunglasses.