Colorado Continued

Climb time. Bike time. Hike time. Climb time. Bike time.  Hike time. It's a beautiful thing!

That being said. today is a rest day for me and so I have retired to a cozy sofa to catch you up on what's been happening on the CO side of things.

We have been so lucky and have had some amazing weather over the past few weeks.  We have been snowed on once so far (now that I'm typing this we are going to have nothing but snow for days now I can feel it).  We have gotten to climb in some amazing places that I didn't even know existed (Boulder Canyon is endless and the Flatirons are in a category all their own).

We've camped out at nearly 9,500ft elevation and woken up to a dusting of snow over everything.  We've been fortunate enough to hike around a small lake in Rocky Mountain National Park now that it is open and soak up the mountain air into our bodies over the past week and a half.  Colorado is quite a gem.

We are now in Breckenridge for a week in the "high country" (it all seems high to me still- we're staying at 10,300ft) and then heading down to the southwestern corner of the state for some hiking and hopefully climbing and biking.  We've been hiking, gotten some snow and today went out to find some frozen waterfalls with some new friends.  Such a treat.

We've made some great friends out here who have taken us under their wing and shown us some incredible areas full of some of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen.  Instead of talking about it, please enjoy the photos below...

It is already mid-October.  We've been on this adventure for 3 weeks already.  Time continues to fly by no matter what you're up to apparently.  We are starting our "boomerang" back toward California at this point in time with Gunnison, Durango, Indian Creek, Moab, Salt Lake City and finally Tahoe still to go.

Until next time,
M.

~"There is nothing better than making new friends...except making new friends who have chocolate."
-anonymous

Our camp out and breakfast in Nederland- doing it right. 

Secret overlook somewhere outside of Ned and Estes Park

The locals at Rocky Mountain National Park

Nik made a friend

A blurry, but beautiful start to the day as the moon sets over Mt. Quandary

Mt. Quandary (the 14er outside our window in Breckenridge) at sunset

A lot of frozen water

Guess who tried his hand at ice climbing and rocked it

And yes we did finally traverse across the river for a lil climb time

Official photographer hard at work

Climbing in the aspens aspens aspens outside Frisco

Lenticular clouds!!!