In the middle of July, 2020, we decided to head out to California to visit my brother and sister-in-law, and their new baby Graham! We flew out on July 10 during the pandemic, which made it a pretty interesting trip. Luckily, our Southwest flight had only 60-ish people on it, and we just tried to …
After our beautiful mountain bike ride from Molas Pass, Andrea had to do a little work. Mozzie and I took the opportunity to hike a few mountains over thirteen thousand feet that were right near camp. We ended up hiking Spencer Peak (13,087′), Grand Turk (13,160′) and Sultan Mountain (13,368′). I think the hike ended …
This post covers the mountain bike ride along the Colorado Trail from Molas Pass (actually Little Molas Lake where we camped) up to the intersection with Engineer Mountain Trail, then down the Engineer Mountain Trail. Starting early, Andrea and I started from Little Molas Lake, around 10,900′. I had a cool new camera clip that …
After getting back from a fun few weeks back in Missouri, we were itching to get out into the mountains. We decided on a quick and lazy overnight backpacking trip, mostly because getting back into the gym after 3 months (covid closures) kicked our butts! We ditched work around 12:30pm and headed out US-285 into …
With the weather looking dry(ish) and warm in early March and reports of dry trails, we decided to get a jump-start on our desert season with a trip out to Fruita. After a slow day at work on Thursday, we took the long drive all the way across the state. 4.5 hours later and a …
After our backpacking in Torres del Paine and the days in Puerto Natales, we headed out of Chile and into Argentina. We spent a day and a night in El Calafate, Argentina just to break up the traveling and found a lovely town. We spent the afternoon at La Zorra Taproom drinking reasonably priced, delicious …
The final leg of our trip was short and sweet, an evening, night and full day in Buenos Aires before the long flight home. The flight into Buenos Aires was uneventful, and we had already arranged a car beforehand to take us from the airport to the Recoleta neighborhood of BA. The driver was an …
A wonderful break from the winter work-week monotony! We set off for 2 nights at the Fowler-Hilliard hut (Wed-Thurs-Fri) at a fairly early 7am. Since it was mid-February, I70 into the mountains was a typical snow-covered delight. Fowler-Hilliard hut is located east of Camp Hale, south of Vail/Copper Mountain and north of Leadville. Coming off …
