Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
This morning we woke up at 4:30. My mom, Ellie, and I headed towards the Mt. Sherman trail head. When opened our doors the cold wind slapped our faces. We put on our boots and started going up. Up, 2,000 something feet up. When we finished we were 14,034 feet in the air. The hike […]
Read More Mt. ShermanToday we got up ☝at 4:30 my mum,Zoe and I tipped out of the room. My dad stayed behind because he was not feeling good yesterday. We🌂(random umbrella) drove an hour and a half to Mt Sherman. The road made me feel car 🚗 sick😨. It started easy but got steeper. At one ☝ point […]
Read More Day 40 and we only have a week left and we climbed My ShermanToday was all about us girls. Zak sadly spent the day in the hotel room resting and recovering from whatever bug he caught. On the other hand, the girls and I were up at 4:30 and on the road well before 5:00. We had an hour and a half drive to the trailhead. There was […]
Read More Day 39: Mount Sherman“Head in the clouds” – Alicia Keys For me the first half of today was pretty crummy. I just hung out in the hotel waiting for the girls to get back from their adventure, at least I’m back to healthy though. Go read their posts for all the details about their morning. I was super […]
Read More Girl On FireWe had one big goal today, get back to the car we left yesterday morning. We woke up at 6 and spent a whole hour packing up camp. We can’t figure out why it takes us so long, but it always does. By 7 we were on the trail and had a great pace throughout […]
Read More Day 38: Conundrum Hot Spring hike out“Through the woods we ran . . ./ And as I looked around, I began to notice / That we were nothing like the rest” -Of Monsters and Men We woke up this morning in a beautiful mountain valley. Last night after we had finished writing our posts a deer came up next to one […]
Read More Mountain SoundThis morning we woke up with the crisp wind hitting our faces. After tyeing our boots up and a bite of Beef Jerky we started heading back down. The hike was just as beautiful as yesterday. Wildflowers, mountains, and Aspen’s were visible the whole time. While we were hiking we all named our packs. Here […]
Read More 20 Miles In 2 DaysToday we got up ☝at 5:30. We tied up ☝ laces, snapped on backpacks, packed up the room, and KABOOM we were on are way to our first backpacking trip of the year. It is hard to believe how we still have so much to do in only 9 days. We have two mountains to […]
Read More Day 37 and we only have 9 days left before we come home and we are camping tonight😜July 14, This morning we woke up after an okay sleep. The TV was on all night there was no pictures or words coming out of it but it was on and you couldn’t turn it off so that was annoying. Right now I am laying in my tent listening to the creek. But so […]
Read More First Backpacking TripWhat a day!! It’s crazy that we are less than ten days until the end, but today was our first backpacking hike. Water is scarce in the desert, so we’ve had to wait until we got to Colorado. In a way I’m glad we’ve waited, since I felt totally 100% prepared. The hike was unlike […]
Read More Day 37: Conundrum Hot Springs