Yesterday I posted photos from the first two full days in Colorado, where we did Boulder and St. Mary’s Glacier. Today I will concentrate on the second two days.
The next day after St. Mary’s Glacier, we headed north again but this time passed by Boulder and drove to the Rocky Mountain National Park. After a few stops, we did a hike up to Fern Falls. Although the round trip should have been short, the late hour of arrival made it so the round trip hike was over 8 miles/13 km. Continue reading
I spent a few days in Colorado earlier this month. As I went through all of the photos, I decided I needed to divide them in half. OK, the photos really weren’t since the second half has more, but the days were. (part 2)
On our first full day we went to Boulder. Our first stop was at NCAR, a really high profile weather station. Besides looking around the exhibits, which are aimed more at children, we walked a bit outside.
We then went into town and shopped for a while. We then stopped at Chautuaqua Park for a short walk before heading back to the Denver area. Continue reading
Cannon form Franconia Ridge
I know I’ve talked it about it quite a bit and even had posts about it, but just in case you didn’t know, I went hiking in New Hampshire’s White Mountains exactly a month ago, on November 19. In fact, my Weekly Smile for week 47 was a write up about the hike. Look at it for details. OK, here’s a short excerpt:
We got up bright and early (or actually still very dark and early) Saturday morning and drove up to New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Specifically we went up to the Franconia Notch area and did the loop around Mt. Lafayette. The loop is about 8.9 miles (14.3 km). The top of Lafayette is around 3000 feet (915 m) above the trail head and the total climb (since there are several peaks in the loop) is about 3900 feet (1190 m). It is not an easy trail, but it is a fun one.
I also posted about the fall I took while hiking. I am still not 100% recovered. The worse of it was past in a week or two, so a month out I’m fine, but there are still times I can tell I injured myself. Continue reading
Weekly Smile #WeeklySmile
If you’ve been reading my blog at all over the last few days I’m sure you realized that my brother came up from Philadelphia to go hiking. I had a few posts about our short hike(s) on a trail that is just a few miles from my house. I haven’t said much about Saturday. That’s about to change :)
We got up bright and early (or actually still very dark and early) Saturday morning and drove up to New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Specifically we went up to the Franconia Notch area and did the loop around Mt. Layfayette. The loop is about 8.9 miles (14.3 km). The top of Lafayette is around 3000 feet (915 m) above the trail head and the total climb (since there are several peaks in the loop) is about 3900 feet (1190 m). It is not an easy trail, but it is a fun one.
Second view of Lafayette – that’s still a couple of thousand feet up there! (The mountain to the right is Mt. Lincoln – it is smaller, but closer so looks bigger).
Mt. Monadnock seen from Pack Monadnock
I used to hike Mount Monadnock all of the time (Google it). After the first couple of times up I changed my route so that I would take long arcing hikes that would totally skip the summit. I would get close and there were always places to take in the view, but I saw no reason to go to the top.
On more than one occasion I had people ask me why I didn’t go all of the way to the top. If you don’t go to the summit, what’s the point? Where is the destination? I had people tell me they hated hiking without an objective.
To me hiking was the point, spending time outside communing with nature was the objective. It was the journey, not the destination that was important. Continue reading
I tell the whole world
Shouted from the mountain tops
Does no one listen?
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OK, another lighter one: Continue reading
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