Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We did it! We climbed our first 14er, Mount Bierstadt! I’m so glad it is something we all did together for the first time. There is nothing more magical than accomplishing such a huge feat with your children at your side. It is very humbling. We started early. Like ridiculously early. 4:15 early. Adding salt […]
Read More Day 29: Mount BierstadtAfter a bit of a disappointing run in the mountains we made up for it today. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post our goal for the day was to make the summit of Mt. Bierstadt, and I’m happy to say that although it wasn’t easy, we made it! There was an awesome feeling of accomplishment […]
Read More In Da ClubToday was our last hike. It was 14,060 feet high. Guess what it is. It was a mountain. It was a 14er. We went up 2,600 feet. The name of the mountain is Mt. Bierstadt. It was 8 miles and 7.5 hours. Today I woke up with a bright light in my eye. Because of […]
Read More The Last HikeToday we started off by waking up at 4:15. We climbed our first 14er today, Mount Bierstadt. We got dressing in our tent, packed up camp, and then drove about 2 miles to the trail head. The total milage was 8 miles, the elevation was 2600 feet. It took us seven hours. The hike up […]
Read More The 29th DayToday was one of my most favorite days. We got to do tons of fun stuff including camping. We started off by waking up at 7:30. We got to sleep in! One of my least favorite things about today was even though Cowboy Brad was playing we didn’t get to see him. Although we did […]
Read More The 28th DayToday we went white water rafting. I was really nervous. Like I didn’t want to do it because I thought I would die. I was so scared. After the 2 hour drive we finally got to our destination. We checked in and then ate lunch in our car. After lunch we went inside, got on […]
Read More White Water RaftingWe’re ending our day camped at Guanella Pass at the base of our target for tomorrow, Mt. Bierstadt. Before setting up the tents we drove to the trailhead to scout it out and I’m happy to report that we all thought it looked very doable. Since there’s no internet here this won’t be posted until […]
Read More Life is a HighwayWhat a day! It was supposed to be a rest day, but, whew!, white water rafting is hard. We left Estes Park and I was happy to leave. It was just too crowded and full of touristy things for my taste. We drove a couple of hours to Idaho Springs and had plenty of time […]
Read More Day 28: White Water Rafting in Idaho Springs