Arn and I went on a hike I have been wanting to do for a while this past week. Devil's Head is west of Sedalia and the fire tower is the last remaining manned fire tower in Colorado. It's 1.4 mi. up on the trail and is listed as a moderate hike. The area is beautiful and when you get to the top there is a cute little cabin where the fire lookout man and his wife live from May til Oct. There are 143 steps up to the top of the tower and wonderful views. Sadly, Bill the lookout guy was not there. He was either hiking down for groceries or at lunch. In the lookout he had a wood stove, phones, a desk and lists of people who have done the trek over 100 times or done it at over 80 yrs. of age. Also he had all the peaks listed so you could tell what you were looking at in in any direction. I don't like heights so the trip up the tower was a little scary for me. Maggie did well on the hike but didn't do the stairs up to the top. We even say an older man with an oxygen tank on his back and his wife who made it up to the top but thought he wouldn't have enough O2 to do the steps up to the tower. What a guy! We lunched in Sedalia at a cute little Mexican place, didn't have time to do the antique shops, and went on to Tagawa (the biggest nursery in Colorado) to pick up some straw flowers (voles won't eat them!).
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