Before we hit the mountain road on the way to Silverton we found an alpine lake hike to do.  Apparently it had been a really good snow year for Colorado so the trail that my husband wanted to take us on was closed on the upper crossing to the lake so we sought out some advice in Durango and landed on Spud Lake Trail.  Even though the road to get to the trail head said we did not need a high clearance vehicle we ended up parking the van and walking the last .5 miles to the trail head because the road was so rough.  It was a stunningly beautiful hike that was moderate in difficulty and rewarded you with a beautiful alpine lake at the end.  I wanted to hang out and knit more up there but some weather was moving in and so we headed on back down and made our way into Silverton.