Sangre De Cristo Mountains
Backpacking the Zapata Lake trail and overnight camping to hike the following day Ellingwood Point.
The ZLT is a 5.5 mile hike with 3500 feet of elevation gain to the lakes.
Its definitely an awesome canyon with 4 creek crossings and Ellingwood Point is in view the whole time. I was able to catch at Zapata Lake 5 Big horns fight, and the Alpha male which was easy to pick out of the group because he was really big. I was also lucky to have the whole lake area to myself for both overnights. Hiking to Ellingwood Point is an awesome hike with great views and some Class 3 scrambling near the last 300 feet in elevation. Overall just a great place to go experience some the awesome mountains of Colorado
