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Tag: Rocky Mountain National Park

Hiking Sky Pond

Hiking Sky Pond

Posted on March 3, 2021March 5, 2021 by jim

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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Ypsilon Lake Snowshoeing

Ypsilon Lake Snowshoeing

Posted on January 18, 2021February 16, 2021 by jim

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

Hiking Chasm Falls

Posted on January 13, 2021January 14, 2021 by jim

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

Climbing Estes Cone

Posted on December 26, 2020January 8, 2021 by jim

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

Rocky Mountain Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2020December 27, 2020 by jim

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

Rocky Mountain Lakes

Posted on December 8, 2020December 31, 2020 by jim

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

Balanced Rock Hike

Posted on December 6, 2020December 17, 2020 by jim

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

Gem Lake Hike

Posted on November 17, 2020December 9, 2020 by jim

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

Bridal Veil Falls

Posted on November 16, 2020November 18, 2020 by jim

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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Moose!

Moose!

Posted on September 17, 2011March 25, 2020 by jim

We decided several weeks ago that we needed to spend a day or two on the southwest corner of the Rocky Mountain National…

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Weekend in Allenspark

Weekend in Allenspark

Posted on August 8, 2011March 25, 2020 by jim

Another great Colorado weekend, this time my Mom flew in to spend a four-day weekend with us at a great little cabin up…

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