Fantastic views on the way up

I enjoy the views that you get from the top of Sulphur Mountain, but I’m not so keen on the crowds up top in the summer. I hiked it in early September this year – a few days after an early snowfall. Though most of the snow had melted, I still wasn’t entirely certain how much snow that there would be on the main trail up as it faces roughly east. Instead I decided to take the old Cosmic Ray Station Road due to it facing almost due west and I hoped that there would have been a greater chance for the snow to have melted on this route.

We left for the hike from the Cave and Basin National Historic Site following the paved trail that leads past the exhibit on Internment Camps in the National Parks on the trail heading towards Sundance…