So back a few weeks ago before all the snow, my friend Kaleigh came to visit. She'd been traveling around the entire US. Cali, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, North Carolina, and Hawaii. I don't know how she afforded it, but she made it happen. So on one of the days that she was in town, she, Amanda and I went and hiked in the Rocky Mountain National Park. I think that anytime that we get together and go play in the forest we always feel that we are the most athletic people in the world (see "
Yeah, this is happening"). Wrong again. We planned for a day of hiking around the park, climbing mountains, and chasing elk. We would have been successful, but the elk were lazy and weren't up for it.
As soon as we started out on our hike, it started raining. Not hard but enough to make us freezing and not like being outside at the time. But after about 20 minutes it stopped and we continued on looking for more adventures. The sights were amazing and the river that we followed made it that much better.
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| The river that we followed while it rained on us. |
We continued on and it opened into a clearing that was surrounded by mountains calling our names.
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| I want to climb the mountain in the background so bad. |
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| Such the adventurers. |
The hike ended at around 9 miles and many hours later. As we got off the trail and to the rest stop we noticed the sign that showed what people like us are suppose to carry.
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| We clearly had none of these things! Ok maybe water, but topo map? Really? |
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| It's like a Bob Ross painting. Complete with "happy trees." |
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| Aspens. So beautiful. |
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| Baby elk just hanging out next to the road. |
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