Saxon/Cascade Creek

[SubAlpine]

Any one know it they are open/passable?

[JAB]

hard to say, Slaughterhouse was completely dry last weekend and its not that far away, I imagine Cascade creek is pretty good with these warm temps.

[ZukiTony]

I went up Cascade Creek last weekend and it is clearing off very nicely. I am sure by this weekend D it will be completely passable. Saxon mountain on the other hand won't be until someone can get up there and clear off the slide that happened last spring. Some of the boulders are half the size of the Samurai.

[JFjeld]

I forget; can you get back down to I-70 and/or Idaho Springs from Cascade Creek? The last couple of times I ran Spring Creek, I think we took Cascade Creek down, but I was with others and don't remember the exact trail; though I know it wasn't Saxon Mountain. We're running Spring Creek on Saturday and if we can get past the Rock Garden, I'm trying to determine the best route back down...

And if interested, sign up for the Spring Creek run on Saturday. I posted it to the calendar.

[mikeyhcrana]

I believe both Cascade Creek, and Ute Creek roads bring you back to 103. It's just a little way into Idaho Speings from there.

[Backcountryislife]

You can also come out past the brazil mine onto trail creek, off of lamartine. (pretty sure first left after the lamartine mine site going east)

little faster, brings you out by the phoenix mine, or if you want to minimize road driving to loop back to SC, you can go up miner's candle (Y to left after you get to where trail creek is a normal gravel road, then take the 2nd left at the top, and follow that down, which dumps you out in Dumont, right by where the bridge for the frontage rd cuts over, then if you need to get back to a trailer without being on the road, go W on the frontage rd on S side of the creek, and turn up Blue ridge rd, which connects to SC above 2nd... and you can drive back to trailer at bottom.

beats the SH** out of driving back down SC, I wish more people knew how to loop it so we didn't have to deal with downhill traffic on that road.

[Backcountryislife]

btw, this is the path.

The start is top of SC, from the end of the path on Blue ridge rd, there's a well traveled connector to SC that isn't shown on google. Google shows a "silver city, blue ridge connector"... but where that is, there is no road, it's somehow marked in the wrong spot. If you go up blue ridge, the left turn to SC is very obvious.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/39.732019,-105.6452981/39.7583547,-105.6247593/@39.7389536,-105.6118849,6898m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m9!4m8!1m5!3m4!1m2!1d-105.6399445!2d39.7275896!3s0x876bafd4ded1c6f3:0x4b 6363c21e69b2c6!1m0!3e0


There are a TON of other ways to get down aside from ute & cascade, I take a different way out just about every time.