A couple weeks ago, I went with a group of locals up Boulder Loop Trail. Doing the 3.1-mile Boulder Loop Trail is a local favorite, and done by many visitors as well.
We didn’t know when we started up the trail that we would meet a forest service trail crew up on the mountain, and that they had rerouted part of the trail.
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