Gr8 Fish: Mayflower Gulch & Gold Hill Trundle ~ Then Keen 1st Fri Festival In Silverthorne 07Aug26

Friday, August 7, 2026

Mayflower Gulch & Gold Hill Trundle ~ Then Keen 1st Fri Festival In Silverthorne 07Aug26

Gold Hill... Jim, Steve, and I started the day driving past Copper toward Fremont Pass and grabbed a lucky, recently vacated, parking spot at the Mayflower Gulch TH. We hiked straight up the rocky road, oddly closed this season... it was our plan all along but odd. The cirque of the Pacific Crest and surrounding ridgeline is spectacular, and dotted with mining remnants. Yet, we had more in mind and headed up to acquire the Gold Hill ridgeline. We then looped back to the car across the ridge and through a couple of lesser known turns right to get us back to Mayflower Gulch. Yoho found an AirBnB along the route back. The weather and friends offered a great moderate hike. After the hike we hit Thirsty Pika for a second chance... hmmm.

1st Friday... we returned to Eagles Nest and rested in the afternoon some. Then we hit the monthly 1st Friday gathering in Silverthorne in late afternoon - and stayed all night. We wisely rode public transportation, which in Summit Co is excellent. This was the biggest 1st Friday event I'd every seen/heard. We saw 13 bands on 6 stages and drank discounted beers due to Brown bringing us reusable 1st Friday cups from prior outings. There were art booths all around us to boot. It was awesome. We found out what Cody, prior owner of Baker's Brewery, is doing ~ playing bass for Obnoxious Weeds! Our favored band, whom I blind picked to see from their name alone, was the Pinheads, a local SKA band. There were many alternative genres represented and most all the bands were locals ~ I didn't get every artist's pic clean but I did get quite a few. We capped the night at Angry James and had some food from Mountain Melt, along with a night cap.