This morning I drove north as the sun rose over the prairie.
I headed up to Crawford, through Fort Robinson State Park, and over to the Soldier Creek Campground for my hike into the Soldier Creek Wilderness. Noelle and I had backpacked here before, back in 2009 when we were working seasonal jobs at Wind Cave National Park.
I parked the car, grabbed my pack and got Rosie ready for our hike. We would be hiking the Trooper Trail Loop and the walk started with us entering the wilderness
and a descent down to the namesake creek.
Much of the beginning part of the hike was down in the valley formed by Soldier Creek.
Eventually, the trail climbed up to the top of a ridge with great views of the surrounding landscape.
The area has burned at least once before, but there were areas of tree, ponderosa pines up on the ridges.
The first half of the trail headed northwest, but once we made the turn we headed mostly southeast back towards the trailhead. After the final descent, we followed a low area back towards the trailhead.
It was a fairly long, but very enjoyable hike through a part of western Nebraska that I need to make it back to.
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