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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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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Colette’s First 14er
Colette’s 1st 14er climb – she’s a beast! We were treated to a snow shower and lightning from three directions – once Colette’s…
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Massive Snow
Many thanks to the crews who finally cleared the avalanche out between Silverton and Animas Forks. No, that is not photoshopped, and yes,…
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Climbing Handies Peak
Colette’s First 14er! Handies Peak is a walk-up, no technical skill needed to make it to the top, but it’s still no joke….
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Palmyra Peak
The climb and the weather both sucked, but the views sure are worth it.
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Culebra Snapshot
Amazing day climbing Culebra and Red Peak, and got off the ridgeline before the thunder and lightning in the distance could make it’s…
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Culebra and Red Peak
Three high points in one weekend. Mt Sunflower in Kansas on Friday, Black Mesa in Oklahoma on Saturday, and Culebra Peak in Colorado…
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Climbing La Plata Peak
At 14,360 feet in elevation, La Plata Peak is the fifth-highest peak in the state of Colorado, and number 34 in North America…
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Sneaky Marmot
Photobomb! I thought I had the entire mountain to myself until I turned around and saw this yellow-bellied marmot sneaking up behind me…
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Climbing Mount Massive
At 14,429 feet, Mount Massive is the big number two in Colorado’s high points. Because of being number two and it’s close proximity…
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Lily Pond Trail
We were looking for a nice forested hike close to the RV, and I had spotted the Lily Pond trail while I was…
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Lost Man Trail
Once we arrived in the Leadville/Twin Lakes area, we started scouting out all of the local hikes on AllTrails. Since it’s pretty warm…
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Independence Ghost Town
Independence is a ghost town with an interesting history perched high in the mountains between Aspen and Leadville at 10,900 feet of elevation….
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