Dimick Gulch Question

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Dimick Gulch Question

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Anyone familiar with Dimick Gulch (between North Crestone Creek and San Isabel Creek)? Found a couple maps that seem to suggest there is an unnamed trail up Dimick gulch that then goes up and over a ridge and connects to the San Isabel trail. Been fooled by this before, only to arrive and not find even a hint of a trail, game trail or otherwise.

Might this trail actually exist?

Dimick Gulch start
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Dimich Gulch connecting trail to San Isabel trail
Dimich Gulch connecting trail to San Isabel trail
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Re: Dimick Gulch Question

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It's shown on the MapBuilder topos (see caltopo.com), which sources tracks from OSM, which I think is crowdsourced, possibly from the likes of Strava.
That's mostly conjecture, but if a trail shows up on MapBuilder topos that's generally a good indication that it exists.
It's labeled "San Isabel Trail (FS858)" there, so it's probably documented on a USFS site as well.
Lastly, the trees are pretty thick in there, but starting where they thin out around 10,500' the satellite imagery shows a clear trail.

None of that speaks to maintenance so it might be as good as Spanish Creek.
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Re: Dimick Gulch Question

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The trail up the gulch is there, but only for the first quarter to half mile or so (essentially following an old mining road). It quickly disappears into thick weeds / willows / brush / deadfall, however, and you have to bushwack and gain the ridge much earlier than you'd prefer to get out of it. Ultimately I don't recommend it. Also, the 'trail' leading into the San Isabel basin from the ridge from Dimick Gulch is non-existent at this point.
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Re: Dimick Gulch Question

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Yeah scratch all that, I was looking at the wrong creek! :oops:
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Re: Dimick Gulch Question

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interloper wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:10 am The trail up the gulch is there, but only for the first quarter to half mile or so (essentially following an old mining road). It quickly disappears into thick weeds / willows / brush / deadfall, however, and you have to bushwack and gain the ridge much earlier than you'd prefer to get out of it. Ultimately I don't recommend it. Also, the 'trail' leading into the San Isabel basin from the ridge from Dimick Gulch is non-existent at this point.
This makes me sad.... But good to know. :)
Boggy B wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:11 am Yeah scratch all that, I was looking at the wrong creek! :oops:
And this makes me laugh :-D
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