Run Loop from NCAR

For Saturday, we'll start from the NCAR Mesa Laboratory parking lot at 8:00a and do a clockwise loop that will include Bear Canyon, Green Bear, Green Mountain West Ridge, Long Canyon, Gregory Canyon, Bluebell Baird, Flatirons Loop, and Mesa Trail.

We will plan to skip a Green Mountain summit, unless someone can't resist. The total distance will be just over 13 miles, with roughly 3000 ft of gain, at around 4 hours.

Dogs are not allowed on Long Canyon, so your alternate route options will be to head down Ranger and meet us at the base of Long Canyon or run the side of the road between the start of Long Canyon and Realization Point, then regroup at Gregory.

Shorter options will include cutting through on some inner loop trails where possible, for example, you can take Ranger to the base of Long Canyon, which will cut out the West Ridge and Long Canyon sections, or, you could cut over on EM Greenman and head down on Saddlerock or the 1st / 2nd Flatiron trail to skip Gregory.

The longer option could be to include Flagstaff then cut back over to Gregory Canyon trailhead. ... or as long as you're out there add Bear!

We'll decide the breakfast location during the run.

Scott Miller
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