Category: Travel

Over the Misty Mountains

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Overlooking the Estes side of the Rocky Mountain National Park

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More friends!

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Hey there buddy.

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Another view of the park.

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Pocket man, burning out his fuel out here alone.

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Up the mountain.

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A good place to stop for a hike.

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Even with clouds its very bright at 12,000ft

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Selfie stick and DSLR: Ready to go!

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Leading the way.

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Feels like we’ve landed on an alien world.

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Nothing but tundra around us.

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Walking to the edge of the world.

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A full 360 view of what its like at the top of the Rockies.

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Feels like Weathertop, watch out for Nazgul.

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Today’s trail is brought to you by rocks.

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Panoramas up here are just amazing.

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Keep of natures lawn!

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Officially at the top.

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925 miles to Seattle

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There aren’t many choices for a lunch stop on top of the Rockies.

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But the view is amazing.

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Officially at 12,000ft

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All sealed packages become balloons.

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Continental divide. Perfect content for Clash of Coasts

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The mighty Colorado River!

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Fording the Colorado, everyone is safe and no one has dysentery.

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Still in the mountains, but we found a farm.

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An old semi-abandoned dude ranch.

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Plains in the mountains.

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Our hotel in Grand Lake.

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S’mores by the fire.

The Rare Rocky-Mountain Goldfish

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2015-09-30 09.08.08

Taking the Accent off road

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We didn’t start the fire.

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Estes Park seen from above.

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Estes and the Mountains

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Looking pensive on the rocks.

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A wild mountain goat

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One top of the mountain

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Whats over there?

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Oh, its more mountains

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This hike is brought to you by Goldfish

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A Selfie with Estes

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Rental hit 10000 miles!

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Perfect time of the year to be in the mountains

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Our trusty trail guide.

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Into the woods; its time to go…

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Bear lake

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A new friend

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Just hanging out.

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Prairie -> lake -> forest -> mountains -> sky

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Our trail down the mountain

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We found a bubbling brook.

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Finish the day with some put-put.

Elk Crossing

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Day 4 of the Colorado adventure: we have gotten up early and are among a line of cars waiting to get into the Rocky Mountain National Park.

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Heading into the park, ready for adventure.

Not five minutes into the park we have our first Elk spotting. We really weren’t expecting to see any as they are usually not out during the day.

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Ohh look, Elk!

Nobody bothered to tell the elk that they weren’t supposed to be out. We ended up stuck as dozens of elk made their way across the road.

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A lot of Elk…

We got to the trail head and had a little warm up hike around Bear lake. A Rocky Mountain trail that is wheel chair accessible.

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Bear lake, not to be confused with Beer lake.

The next stop on our tour of lakes is Nymph lake. I’m pretty sure this is where the Lady of the Lake present Excalibur to Arthur King of the Britons.

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Nymph lake. This would have been a nice photo if I hadn’t fat-fingered it.

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The only place to get signal.

Next is Dream lake. If you pay close attention to the mountain in the distance it will be in more photos and keep getting bigger.

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Dream lake

The trail terminated at Emerald Lake. A good place to take a rest before turning around and going past all those lovely lakes again.

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Emerald lake

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If you look closely you can see some snow.

After getting back to the trail head it was time to hike down the mountain to our next objective.

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Trees; they don’t have those back home.

Alberta falls. This time of year a tiny stream, probably a lot more violent when the snows are in full melt.

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Someone should help Alberta up.

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Time for a Selfie! Still haven’t shaved.

After a long day of hiking we headed back in Estes to check out the town and grab some grub.

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Better pizza than Seattle, vacation is already worth it.