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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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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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Three Days, 15 Moose!

We are now in Grand Lake, Colorado, on the western side of Rocky Mountain National Park.  When we arrived, we were saddened by the devastation from the fires last fall.  (More on the devastating fires later.)  Our first thought was that the wildlife may be gone…..but we were very wrong.  In just 3 days we have seen over 15 Moose!  I say “over” because we saw a few before we started counting and we have also seen Moose but unable to capture by camera. Several Moose have walked by our Airstream windows!  We have set up a trail camera at…

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