Busk Creek and Highline looped with the CDT/CT
San Isabel National Forest Leadville National Fish Hatchery (map link) While pondering the mile or so interpretive trail at the Leadville National Fish Hatchery, I noted that there is a "Highline Trail" that starts near there. Does it deserve to be called Highline Trail? The map suggests that yes, it does, at least for a few miles near the other end. It can be done as a loop with a section of the Continental Divide Trail (and the Colorado Trail) with a road walk along Hagerman Pass to connect. There's also a trail shown on OpenStreetMap along Busk Creek which allows, for only a couple more miles, a loop entirely on trail. That's the option I went for. Disturbingly, even though the trail includes a numeric designation (1509) on OpenStreetMap suggesting its officialness, it does not show on my Forest Service topographic maps. I put it at the start of the day so it and any consequences from it could be dealt with most easily. The first difficulty was just finding ...