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Two Days at Arches National Park

Welcome from Ridgway, CO!  We are back in Colorado after a 2 day trip to Moab, UT to visit Arches National Park.  We had an amazing two days of hiking to stunning arches and vistas.  Arches National Park has more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches!  The park is located 4 miles north of Moab and consists of 76,680 acres.  While there the temperature was about 97 during the day.  Together we toured the following arches:North ArchSouth ArchTurret ArchPine ArchTunnel ArchLandscape ArchDouble ArchCarol, Atom and Susan hiked to Delicate Arch but I declined due to the elevation and heat. (I washed…

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Rifle Gap SP, Independence Pass & Aspen

We spent a day exploring Independence Pass and Aspen.  The road to Independence Pass is a constant climb from Aspen with two parts of the road one lane!  The payout is huge when you arrive at the pass, at 12,095 ft. you truly feel like you are on top of the world.  Independence Pass is also along the Continental Divide; the views are spectacular! We stopped in Aspen for the afternoon.  The town is charming with a tiny creek running through the downtown mall area.  We passed Kemo Sabe a very popular western hat store.  There was a line to get…

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A Day at Maroon Bells!

We’re Back! After a week of painfully pathetic internet and cell coverage, we finally are in Rifle, Colorado at the Public Library with high speed internet!  We have lots to catch up on, more in the updates below…now for the good stuff…. Maroon Bells  Yesterday we got up at 5:45am and drove 1 hour and 40 minutes to the west side of Aspen to catch the shuttle to Maroon Bells. The Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about half a kilometer (one-third of a mile). Both peaks are fourteeners. Maroon…

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