Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Today was the Fourth of July day. We woke up at 5:00. I started my day off by my dad being annoying. He was using my arms pretending they were a rowboat and fishing and running a race. He did that to wake me up. We all got dressed and then we went to breakfast. […]
Read More The 27th DayWell, we climbed another mountain today. Sounds pretty impressive, but it was a little, easy one. Here are the stats: 6.5 miles out and back, 1200 feet elevation, 3.5 hours. My legs were pretty exhausted from the last few days so I put more stress on my knees, causing them more pain than typical. That’s […]
Read More Day 27: Deer Mountain and the FourthWe climbed a mountain today. All the way to the top. The actual summit where we had a 360 degree view of the world. It was amazing. There is nothing like the feeling of being on a summit. This is our third summit ever and all those emotions came flooding back. The effort that goes […]
Read More Day 26: Estes ConeToday was our first whole mountain of the trip. It was really easy except for the very end when it was very steep. It was straight up the side of a mountain. The hike up was very hard, but the hike down was easy. Once we reached the very tippy-top of the mountain I felt […]
Read More The 26th DayFinally a summit day!!! After coming so close at Mt. Elbert and then getting washed out at Mt. Ida and pretty much anything else we thought about trying the past couple days we finally made it to a summit today. Our morning began early – 5:00 and we were at the trailhead and ready to […]
Read More On Top of the WorldToday was a good day. Kind of mundane compared to some of the other epic days we’ve had. But still really good. We headed from Estes Park to the far south side of Rocky Mountain NP. This part is far less popular than other areas, but we were still surprised by the crowds. Our hike […]
Read More Day 25: RMNP Wild BasinThis is going to be pretty brief because as Molly mentioned today was pretty mundane. We did have a nice hike in the Wild Basin, a place none of us had been before, but oddly we weren’t too impressed with anything other than the waterfalls. Other than that it was pretty much mile after mile […]
Read More The WayZoe: Ellie what was your favorite part of the hike. Ellie: I liked the waterfalls, what was yours dad? Zak: Mine was the waterfalls too. How do you think the waterfalls on this trip compared to last year? Ellie: I liked last year’s better, they were bigger. What do you think of the hotels dad […]
Read More A ConversationToday Ellie and I are going to write a blog post together. We will take turns writing sentences. Can you figure out who wrote first? Today we did a 7.5 mile hike. We were going to hike a mountain but, thunderstorms stopped us. The hike was going to be Mt. Ida, but we hiked bear […]
Read More The 24 day(Did I throw a fast one at you, Ruth and mom? Keep reading…) Our plans for today got turned around time after time as the threat of severe weather became more realistic. From Mount Ida to Estes Cone and Lilly Mountain to just Estes Cone to, finally, the Bear Lake area. The weather was misty […]
Read More Day 24: RMNP Bear Lake Hike/Estes with the Ristows