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PHOTOS: Summit to Sea trail builders rebuild temporary, primitive trail to Hanging Lake

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Chelsea Self
  

Hanging Lake reservations opening Monday, first hikes June 25

Trail reconstruction crews have been busy reconstruction the Hanging Lake Trail after last summer’s multiple heavy rain events and debris slides in Glenwood Canyon. The popular trail was largely destroyed and washed away after mud, rocks and debris swept down the Deadhorse Creek drainage as a result of historic rainfall hitting the burn scar of the Grizzly Creek Fire which swept through Glenwood Canyon in August of 2020.

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Rock and debris fill the creek and nearly covers a picnic table at the Hanging Lake Trailhead after recent flash flooding in Glenwood Canyon.
Chelsea Self / Post Independent

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Bridge number one on the Hanging Lake Trail was once covered in mud and heavily damaged from debris flows after flash flooding in Glenwood Canyon last summer.
Chelsea Self / Post Independent

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Visual Journalist Chelsea Self can be reached at 970-384-9108 or cself@postindependent.com

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