Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
“How tall we stand. Just like a stone tree deep in this land.” Bill Miller We had another great day of hiking today! Our destination was Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. This was a new NPS site for us and I’m glad we dedicated a day to it. If you come here looking for fossils […]
Read More Stone TreeToday we went to Florescent fossil beds NM. I wrongly assumed that we would get to see cool dinosaur fossils or bones or something but no. It was literally insects and leaves. The only cool part was the petrified redwood trees. I can’t explain how that happens so I’ll let someone else do that. After […]
Read More Hiking at florescent fossil bedsCan we just talk about uphill for a minute, I hate it every part of it and it is even worse when you go 150 feet up just for there to be 2 feet of flat then you go right back down and this is what happened countless times today. The day started of normal […]
Read More Day 6Today was our first full day in Colorado Springs and we spent it at Gardens of the gods. Today started off at 6:30 AM! I know the other day I talked how much I already did not like alarms in summer but, when they are set half and hour then you normally get up for […]
Read More Day 5The morning started with an absolute treat for me, sunrise yoga at Garden of the Gods. I’m struggling with the guilt of making the rest of the family get up at 6:30 and patiently waiting for the entirety of the class. The class of 15 had participants of all pratice levels and I seemed right […]
Read More Day 5: Garden of the GodsAlthough there was no reenactment of Bents old fort today was a great day. We had to wake up early so my mom could go to her yoga lesson. During that ellie my dad and I played euchre. I had never played euchre before and I still have no idea how to play. I just […]
Read More Hiking at Garden of the GodsI will walk with my shadow flag Into your garden, garden, oh Pearl Jam It’s day 5 and we hit our first legit hike of the trip! I tried to plan things to ease us all into hiking a bit. There’s no good way to train for the type of hiking we do out here […]
Read More Garden“I’m looking for something to buy” Harry Styles We learned A LOT about trading today. According to our tour guide at Bent’s Old Fort there are three types of goods: goods that make life easier, goods that make you look or feel good, and entertainment. I think his system is BS, but for $3 per […]
Read More Fine LineAt Sand Creek Massacre we learned about Bent and his forts, the old one and the new one. Today we visited them both, beginning with the new one. We pulled into the tiny gravel lot, confident we were the first ones there in days, perhaps weeks. I put the hiking pack on the hood of […]
Read More Day 4: Bent’s Forts and Colorado SpringsToday started like most other roadtrip days, coffee, cinnamon rolls, and a quick car drive but took a turn I think now of us expected. When ellie recommended we take the tour of Ben’s old fort none of us knew there would be a live reenactment of what fort life would have been like back […]
Read More Im still rolling my eyes