text: End Date Thursday 12/27/2018
  Event Title Mitchell Creek Loop - ski or snowshoe
  Elevation Gain 796
  Driving Distance 75 miles
  Tennessee Pass trailhead across from Ski Cooper entrance.
  Prior to 8 pm on 12/26: candace.winkle@comcast.net
  If you need to cancel after 8 pm 12/26, call or text 303-888-0559 OR use the cancel button.
  Mitchell Creek Loop: This trail offers good views of Chicago Ridge and the Continental
  Divide, receives only moderate use, and is rated moderate. It can be traveled in both directions, but is more fun clockwise. Leave the parking lot from the south trailhead (the one closest to Hwy 24) accessed at the Forest Service sign. Travel 2.5 miles westerly to where it intersects Wurtz Ditch Road. Turn right, northerly, continuing on the road 1/2 mile to where it crosses Wurtz Ditch Bridge. Cross the bridge and go to the back side of a descent through heavy timber and willows for 2 miles. At the bottom you come out of the trees into a meadow where you turn right, easterly, and pick up the old narrow gauge railroad grade, which you follow 2.5 miles past the charcoal ovens and back to the parking lot.
  https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5186582.pdf
  Snowshoes, x-country skis, telemark skis, AT skis and splitboards welcome. Although there is some elevation gain/loss this is more of a tour than a backcountry ski event. Please dress appropriately for weather - consider goggles, face mask/neck gaitor, hand and/or toe warmers, extra down jacket for lunch stop.