Foggy Dew Creek — Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025

The pup and I started at the very cold Foggy Dew Trailhead and hiked up to Angel's Staircase. Most of the trail was snow covered and it became shin deep to thigh deep after heading off on the trail to Merchant's Basin. We saw no other human footprints in this section of the trail. The snow was soft and powdery and no traction was required for the climb. Usually, I prefer to make a loop down to Cooney Lake, but I decided backtrack so I wouldn't have to break more trail. On the way out, I used microspikes because I was wearing running shoes with very little traction. Back on the main trail, I saw that some horse riders had passed and cleared out the fallen trees! Very awesome.