Pagosa Springs [Day Two]

Today we slept in (if you call 7:30 am sleeping in). Had a nice breakfast and then headed to Wolf Creek Pass (well on the way there) to find French Ingots. An easy find but an awkward downhill climb. This box is at a pullout for Treasure Falls so Thomas and I decided to take the short (about one mile round trip) hike to the falls. What a nice surprise! Great little falls right off the highway and a great view if you do the hike. We headed back in to Pagosa Springs and looked for Pagosa Hot Springs Letterbox. Clues a little wonky. No blue pagoda and the only pagoda we found was immaculately manicured and no box to be found. I wonder if we were in the right place.

Next we opted for a longer hike to Fourmile Falls and to look for Adopted Country. After a beautiful drive we arrived at the trailhead. A pretty tough three mile hike got us close to the falls and a little further got us right under the falls. Absolutely worth the hike. I wasn't able to interpret the clues correctly so we didn't get the box, but I loved the entire hike - fall colors, spectacular waterfall and a beautiful day. Seven and a half miles and four hours later we arrive back at the car. There are two other boxes in the area to look for and then we will head to Durango. We drive to the Chimney Rock Archealogical Site and find JelyBean's Land of the Ancients - pretty easy. But after the long and strenuous hike to Fourmile Falls we opted out of doing the three mile hike to Piedra Hot Springs - that box will have to wait for another trip.

Arriving in Durango we check in to the hotel and take showers. Much needed after our long hike. We go out to eat, which takes all the energy we have left and then return to the hotel. Thomas is tired and already asleep. I decided I wanted to get this blog done and log in my letterbox finds before I call it a night. Well, with all that done it is time for bed - I can hear letterboxes calling me for tomorrow.