Dropped Ro at Divine Canine & vehicle-loaded Thursday after work – weekend destination: Utah. Monday, Colorado Springs; Saturday, Salt Lake City – count it, 5 days between marathons. FAAANNNTASTIC!
8 hour drive to Salt Lake. Well that’s no fun – breaking it up over 2 days however, no problemo 🙂
Lived B-I-G and slept Thursday nite at the historic Hotel Colorado (scored with mid-week, off-season pricing). Presidents Teddy Roosevelt & William Howard Taft plus multiple governors & early-20th century celebrities adorned hotel walls in black-n-white photographs – super cool…unfortunately, little time to browse. Quick ‘express’ hike planned.
Hanging Lake.
Crystal clear water, emerald green hue, and a mountain waterfall. SPECTACULAR view!
That’s the way I described the hike in June 2012. 4 years later – same SPECTACULAR view.
Quick UP & down trek – returned coated in a thick layer of human salt. No wish I woulda. Absolutely no regrets.
Lunch, 3 hours of desert, then north an hour – greeted by the backside of the Colorado Rockies. “Welcome to Cottonwood Heights” and the beautiful Wasatch Mountains. City slogan: “City Between the Canyons”, flanked by Big Cottonwood Canyon to the North and Little Cottonwood Canyon on the South.
Tomorrow a.m. – marathon #70, my third in 13 days.
Hanging Lake (Glenwood Springs CO)
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