We've heard the stories of cliffs of snow along the roadside, but seeing is really believing! RMNP got so much snow that they only just now opened Trail Ridge Road and we got to drive along the walls of snow! Sweet!
We decided to camp this weekend on a whim. It was supposed to be in the 60s in Longmont, so we knew that it would be pretty cool in the mountains. We couldn't have been more wrong! We had mid 70s and beautiful weather, but Longmont never got above the 60s!!
We RZR'd all over the place including a pretty tough trail that ended in a plane crash that happened in the 1960s. I couldn't hike to the wreckage, but Kevin did and he said it was pretty eerie seeing recognizable plane parts strewn all over the place.
There is an absoultly picturesque church up in the mountains that we have admired from the road for years, and finally got to go inside. Beautiful.
Along the Coney Flats trail near Camp Dick we faced our first uncrossable water crossing! Normally, when the runoff isn't so high, this can supposedly be done. We got our front end into it, but when we had six inches of water over the floor boards, we decided to back out. I couldn't really get myself stranded with a cast and crutches in possible 2 feet of water!!! Its a good thing we backed out though, Kevin hiked farther past it and the next water crossing looked even deeper. Ah well, next time!
We had a great time, raced a lot of trails, climbed a lot of rocks and generally, had a blast!
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