It has been a good while since I hiked the Lions Gulch trail into the Homestead Meadows area. Conor and I have attacked the meadows from different trails multiple other times, but not up the dreaded Lions Gulch with it’s 1500+ ft elevation gain an 3 miles trail, some considered...
December of 2011, I talked about how I been working on running a mile reliably again… just like when I was a teen. By February I was doing 2 miles and very pleased to do that. Since then I have continued to regularly run 2 miles and more during my...
Conor sold me on a hike that we missed last year; Fern Lake in Rocky Mtn National Park. We attempted it last year but missed the trail split and ended up at Cub Lake. Not a bad trade as Cub Lake is spectacular no matter what… but we both still...
Tim and I took off for our weekly camp trip… this is a new thing: something to get Tim out of the house at least for 1 day each week before he goes back to school in August. So, July 9th we rolled over the Trail Ridge Rd to camp...
After a long days drive through Navajo Nation, we took the short drive west into the Grand Canyon to take in the views… the “grand” views. Mom said she had been here once before but it was so smokey (due to a fire) that she could not see far into...
Our morning began with another small parade of Elk coming through camp. A few were so interested in me, standing outside the trailer warming myself in the sun, that they came to nearly arms-reach before I back stepped to keep distance (just not worth the risk on my end). We...
This mini-van was picked up in mid 2012 for $600. It is not pretty, but mechanically it was sound (enough) to justify a few hundred dollars. Before venturing out on it’s first trip, we decided to build up the mini-van interior with some living space. A simple bed/couch and some...
Even if we were not mandated to leave today, I am sure Mom would want us to go anyway. Yesterday was a brutal day, especially for her. Although the morning started off nicely, eating breakfast and watching the balloons climb the cool morning air over Longmont, by afternoon the heat...
We left Peaceful Valley this morning to spend the weekend closer to town. We knew it was going to be hot (very hot in fact) at the lower altitudes, but Mom said she wanted a change of scenery anyway. Once we arrived at Union Reservoir (only 40 minutes of driving)...
We drove into Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park to show Mom the sights as best we could in a half-day. Mom is still getting too winded at our altitude to go for any treks down the trails, but there are still a lot of things worth seeing right...
