[Rocky Mountain NP, Sep 3, 2023] The morning started out back at the newlyweds’ cabin for a wedding brunch. It was nice to see everyone in a more casual setting and with no sign of the rain from the night before. In the afternoon, I couldn’t resist returning to Rocky Mountain National Park, which I…
[Nederland CO, Sep 1-2, 2023] Getting to Colorado from Mississippi took us pretty much all day. We drove to New Orleans, where we caught a direct flight to Denver. From there, it was another hour or so to Nederland, CO, an old mining town near Boulder. I remembered passing through this tiny little town in…
The Continental Divide of the Americas is a large mountainous divide that separates rivers, snowfall & rainfall that flow into the Pacific from those that fall into the Atlantic. In the US, it starts from the Cape of Prince Wales in the western part of Alaska and then runs through northwestern Canada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,…
Colorado is a beautiful state with a lot of amazing scenery to enjoy. You could easily spend a month here. This itinerary is a giant clock-wise loop starting and ending in Denver. It focuses on two of Colorado’s national parks – Rocky Mountain and Black Canyon of the Gunnison – with the classic mountain resorts…
[Estes Park / Rocky Mountain National Park, Jul 30, 2022] Finally, the day this entire trip was centered around arrived. It was time to run 13.1 miles in Estes Park, just outside Rocky Mountain National Park. The only problem? We were all tired from all the hiking, and severely undertrained! And with the course being…