Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We take so much from the National Park System. In fact, I think we’ve all learned some of our biggest life lessons in the parks. Several months ago we saw a Rocky Mountain Facebook post calling for summer volunteers. We realized that we had a free day and applied. A few weeks later we learned […]
Read More Day 23: Volunteering at RMNPThe craziness of today was exactly the opposite of yesterday’s rest day. We woke up at 6:30 so we’d be able to pack up, get ready, and still get Molly her coffee in time to meet our leader for the day at 9. Everything went smoothly and the girls even had time to write a […]
Read More Beautiful DayToday was a very exciting day. We started by waking up at 6:30 and driving to the visitors center. We waited on the bench for about five minutes and then a ranger came and she said thatwe would help her with planting seeds and picking weeds. We started by going over to a very rocky […]
Read More The 23rd DayToday we volunteered at Rocky Mountain National Park. We dug up all the rocks that were loose in the granite. We then put some soil you top of it. After that we spread out the grass seeds and mulch. We used shovels and and rakes. It was tiring work. We then got to eat lunch […]
Read More Volunteering at Rocky Mountain National ParkWe’ve had a really low key day doing laundry, cleaning out the car, and checking out the small town of Grand Lake. We’ve decided to opt out of writing individual posts today and are doing this interview instead as we sip margaritas and munch nachos at El Pacifico in Grand Lake, Colorado. What is your […]
Read More Mid Point InterviewWe’re about midway through the trip and we’re still keeping tally of all the really important stuff. Only four more states! It’s not a contest! The National Park passport stamps from this summer. One of those was a bit creepy from a much older guy. Eww. We’re actually up to 29 Taylor Swift songs, New […]
Read More Data Collection: Part IIToday was both fabulous and terrible. Fabulous because we’re back in the mountains! Terrible because not everyone was mentally/emotionally prepared for the challenge that faced us which made for a very long day of hiking. We woke up at 5 this morning, with the intention of being on the Mt. Elbert trail by 6. We […]
Read More PushToday was full of highs and lows. Literally and figuratively. I’ll start with the literally. The Mount Elbert trailhead started not far from our campsite at about 10,000 feet in elevation. The summit of Mount Elbert is 14,440 feet, its actually the tallest mountain in the continental US, second only to Mount Whitney in California. […]
Read More Day 21: Mount ElbertToday was a very stressful day. We hiked our first mountain today, Mount Elbert. We were hiking uphill for flour hours. It was tiring. And I think I took at least fifty breaks. The four hours were long because my mom and I were the leaders for some of the time. We were going awfully […]
Read More The 21st DayToday we woke up at the campsite. We started an attempt to our first 14er. We started at 6:30. We hiked up the side of Mt. Elbert ( The tallest mountain in Colorado.) We kept on taking the breaks. Ellie was crabby. It was very steep and hard. It worked out all the parts body. […]
Read More The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go – John Muir