Monday, January 1, 2024 Butterfield Canyon

 Butterfield Canyon Road

hikers/walkers: mark and lecia

This was our "first day of the year" walk!  Happy 2024!  We went quite a ways, 7.2  miles to be exact with 824 ft. elevation gain according to strava, so I am including it as a hike.  We walked a couple a miles before there was even any snow and turned around at the 3.5 mile marker giving us the total of just over 7 miles out and back.   At the beginning there were more walkers and less the further we went.  It appears lots of people like to walk their dogs here.  There were also at least one runner and some people on bikes.  

The start is not so pretty but that's where the parking lot is and there's plenty of parking.

The stream goes from one side of the road to the other.  

There was a lot of watercress growing in it.

This is where we turned around.  The nice thing about walking in Butterfield canyon is the road is closed to cars this time of year.  By the time we turned around there was snow and it was a little colder.  On the road the snow is packed down from lots of use, including snowmobiles although we only saw their tracks.