Blogs from Estes Park, Colorado, United States, North America - page 4

Happy Birthday Leigh!! Well since today is my last day with Heather we decided to have an awesomely girly day. We were planning on going horseback riding in the morning and then possibly climbing in the afternoon, but we got a bit of a late start. It was also WAY too hot to be doing any strenuous approaches for climbing. Instead we decided to check out the Scandinavian Festival in town with Robbie before we had to get to our 1pm horse ride and she had to get to work. The Festival took up this big park in the middle of downtown and they sold all sorts of stuff like pastries, wool clothing and tons of jewelry. After that we wandered around downtown a bit and stopped for lunch at a tourist-y little place that ... read more

url='/Videos/4094.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4094.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Waterfall! Today I went up to the Wild Basin area where Robbi and her parents are staying for the summer. Her dad is retired but he is a seasonal park employee and works with the water in the national parks. The whole family is spending the summer in a cabin inside the park. It is absolutely amazing at their place, all you have to do is walk out the front door and you're ready to hike around the park. We were going to try to get to Calypso Cascades before Robbi had to go to work but we didn't quite make it there. Apparently we were so excited to get moving that we did a rather poor job of reading the signs. Instead of taking the path to Copeland falls that would lead to ... read more

UntitledRegis Phew... today was ROUGH! Went for my second ever outdoor climb, and it was amazing but I had a hell of a time making the trek up to the climbing spot. We climbed the White Whale today which has three pitches (separate climbs). I've never done a multi-pitch climb before and I was really worried that I couldn't make it but there ended up being enough of a break between climbs that I was fine. In other good news I managed not to injure myself! There were four of us climbing, Jay, Heather, Robbi and me. Jay did the lead climbing up to the belay stations towing my rope (teal) and Heather's rope (pink). Once he got to the belay station and had us hooked in Heather started climbing and I followed her up towing ... read more

Colorado Day 1Regis So I did manage to finish packing and get an hour of sleep before leaving at 4:45 to get to the Chambana airport. That is by far the smallest airport I've ever been in, I think there were only 5 gates! Speaking of small, the airplane itself was also tiny, but it did have fancy leather seats. I was really hoping to see the University as we flew over, but there was an insane amount of fog so I couldn't actually see anything once we got up. The plane also went way faster than any of the larger ones I've been on (probably because it's smaller). The flight to Dallas was pretty uneventful (mostly because I fell asleep as soon as I got my cranberry juice). Then I hung around in the Dallas/Ft. ... read more

I participated in the Ridin’ the Rockies HOG Touring Rally that was held June 25-28, 2007. The plan for the week was to spend some time with my cousins before the rally started then take the long way home after the rally. I rode my 2005 833 Sportster from KC to the rally and back home. The following is a ride report of the ride. It is divided in to parts because of the pictures. Saturday 23 JUN 07 I had set all the clocks on the bike to Mountain Time (I live in Central Time), before I left KC. The only clock I forgot to change was my wristwatch. So this morning when my alarm went off I got up and got ready. The plan was to leave the house by 7:30AM. We had the ... read more