Indian Peaks Sunrise
Watching the sun come up as I head up the Arapaho Glacier Trail in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. A beautiful morning, the pictures…
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Lost Lake Revisited
It’s been just under 10 years since our last hike up to Lost Lake in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, and we decided that…
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Pikes Peak via Barr Trail
Pikes Peak – another 14er crossed off the list. Since the extended family was coming to Colorado Springs for a camping visit, this…
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Flat Top Mountain
When you’re a peakbagging fiend, you can’t visit somewhere without climbing the highest thing around. Since we’re currently boondocking in the Flat Tops…
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Devils Causeway Loop
The Number One hike in the Flat Tops Wilderness area is the Devils Causeway, a 6 mile out-and-back hike to a narrow 4-foot…
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Flat Tops Wilderness
The Flat Tops Wilderness has been on our master travel planning Google Map for well over five years now, and now we don’t…
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Eastbound Driving
Lots of little stops that don’t warrant their own photo album. Chimney Rock, Nebraska – one of the most documented waypoints on the…
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Mountain Weather
We love to poke fun at anyone who says “If you don’t like the weather here, just wait a few minutes” since everybody…
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R-Pod Road Trip
We’ve talked about a Sprinter van or some other small camper for quite a while. Since we’ve lived in two RVs already, we…
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Stone Mountain Trail
It’s been a month to the day since our last post, we’ve been heads-down with work and same-old same-old. We’re helping a neighbor…
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Hiking Sky Pond
When the forecast calls for 52 degrees and sunshine, we must play hooky again! Back into Rocky Mountain National Park to bang out…
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Hiking Crosier Mountain
52 degrees and sunny on February 2nd? That means it’s time to play hooky and get some mountain time in! Unfortunately Colette has…
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Ypsilon Lake Snowshoeing
AllTrails lists the Ypsilon Trail hike as 9.2 miles, 2,496 feet of elevation gain, and a Medium difficulty rating. I concur with the…
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Hiking Chasm Falls
With permission to play hooky on a Wednesday, we loaded up spikes and snowshoes and headed to the Park. Surprisingly enough, despite the…
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Climbing Estes Cone
Making use of yet another day of reduced crowds in Rocky Mountain National Park. Normally the Longs Peak trailhead parking lot is completely…
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Rocky Mountain Christmas
Since we love nontraditional holidays – why not a hike in the Park? We figured that crowds would be low, so we would…
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Rocky Mountain Lakes
Off-season means low crowds, might as well bang out some of the hikes you just can’t get to in the summer without hordes…
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Balanced Rock Hike
Although we’ve already done the first section of the Cow Creek Trail, we haven’t done the circuit up to Balanced Rock. While the…
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Gem Lake Hike
The very nice thing about Rocky Mountain National Park being mostly closed – fewer tourists! Slowly as bits of the Park have reopened,…
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Bridal Veil Falls
A sad third-order effect of the massive Cameron Peak and East Troublesome fires has been the closure of most of Rocky Mountain National…
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Mountain Lions
It’s something to be sitting inside the house and watch three huge mountain lions walk up the driveway, across the back patio right…
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