Grand Ditch is 14 mile long excavation built in the '30's to carry water from the mountains to Ft. Collins, CO. You climb a trail from an elevation of around 8,200 ft to an elevation for 11,900 ft. The trail is an old stagecoach route and does not have any switchbacks, so it's straight up, We passed through Lu Lu City, a
3 year boom town during the gold rush. It still has some old log cabins that refuse to give up on the site even if the miners did. The cabins weren't much after 100 years, but they sure tried their best to attest to the history of the region.. |
