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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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Two Days in Rocky Mountain N.P.

The wait is over!  Atom & Susan arrived Thursday afternoon!   It is so nice to have our friends with us for a portion of this journey.  We are in Estes Park and have had a delightful few days.  We explored Boulder, toured and hiked in the national park and enjoyed a wine tasting yesterday afternoon.   We have encountered a variety of weather, yesterday after visiting the Alpine Visitor Center (approx. 12,000 feet of elevation) there was sleet and hail and the temps dropped to 48.   We have a little compound at our campground! Today, we are exploring…

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Yellowstone National Park, so majestic!

After Grand Teton National Park we returned to our Airstream for the night.  We then headed to Yellowstone National Park.  From our home base of Ashton, ID we had about an hour drive to Yellowstone.  Yellowstone was established as the world’s first national park in 1872!  This park influenced the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. The park is 3500 sq. miles of wilderness atop a volcanic hot spot.  The park features canyons, alpine rivers, forests, hot springs and geysers.  The most famous geyser, Old Faithful that got it’s name because it blows approx. every 90 minutes and…

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