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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Settling In
It’s been a long road getting here, but we’re finally settling in. The almighty internet says that the distance between Stuttgart and our…
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Cameron Peak Fire
Fire is like radiation or gossip. It can be used for good, it can be used for bad, but no matter what –…
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Social Distancing
I’ve been slacking on the Daily Doses – aka what used to be Facebook posts – since up until Coronavirus we’d had enough…
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50th Anniversary Party
Florida weekend with family for Mom & Dad’s 50th Anniversary. So nice to have everybody together in one place and relaxing! It is…
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Treasure Island
A fun weekend in Treasure Island to celebrate Shelby’s 26th birthday. Chef Tom providing the food, Shelby providing the twisted sense of humor…
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Redcloud Peak
Since there’s nothing to do in Florida but workout or sit in the pool and drink margaritas, working on catching up on photos….
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Cheaha Mountain Alabama
Yet another place with not much reason to visit except to hit the state high point. At least the state park that contains…
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Woodall Mountain
While we’re waiting for the RV to get fixed, it’s a short drive over to Woodall Mountain – Mississippi’s highpoint at 806 feet….
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Tiffin Fun
And the Tiffin fun continues! They put us up in a local B&B while they are putting a new roof in the coach….
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Mount Magazine
Another state highpoint checked off the list – Mount Magazine Arkansas at a whopping 2,753 feet.
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Up In The Air
It’s not always mountains and beaches and amazing views – there’s a lot of regular mundane stuff including getting warranty work done on…
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Cadillac Ranch
Colorful cars buried in the cornfields. Bring your paint can and spray away…
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