First non-run weekend in a few. Alarm set, 5am buzz, shower, backpack ready – HIKE day! Hour-half to Georgetown, pup peering o’er the console. Rocky Mountain altitude.
destination: Guanella Pass. 13 miles from town center; trailhead start for Bierstadt.
9-mile Jeep trek ‘til snow towered 15 FEET high. ROAD CLOSED. Two weeks from Memorial Day, don’t expect the Pass ready before mid-June. Mountains still socked-in, whole lotta snow. Maybe a rafting trip this summer (water should be FAST) 😊
Parked. Pup tethered to my belt. 2 ½ miles followed a path created by hikers past. Quiet. No people, wildlife still hibernating. Untethered Ro past tree-line. Less threat of mountain lion on exposed sheets of high snow. Bear season too – though none yet spotted per the online Ranger report. Mule deer & Bighorn, only tracks seen all day.
Broke trail last mile-half. Just me & Ro, only heartbeats this high this week. Amateur navigated (not great with a compass). Used tops of road signs & later, roof of a trailhead outhouse. Stovepipe & triangle apex pushing outta the snow.
Gosh. Good to be HIGH. Thin air. Blowing skies. Nowhere better. PERMA smile.
Soaked in peaks while Ro wildlife-explored. Marmot chirp. Never sunshine-showed (stayed burrowed), just teasing Pup.
Dig hiking high. Only 2 marathons calendar’d Independence Day to Labor Day. No cell signal, weekends in-between. Craggy rock & snow-melt rivers. 14er summits, Ponderosa pine, Engelmann spruce. “The mountains are calling & I must go.”
First HIKE of 2019! LOVE LOVE my Colorado life ❤️
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- HIKE day!
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- historic Georgetown
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- Jeep-trek UP
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- ROAD CLOSED
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- snow 15 FEET high
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- quiet, people-less
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- May 2019 🌼
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- Bierstadt trailhead
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- 13 miles from town center
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- dog SMILE
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- thin AIR & blowing skies
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- Sno’ Ro return
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- O-U-T
Guanella Pass 11,670ft
It is Easter. He has Risen.
Sunrise service, yes. Mexicana Easter, sadly no. Ash would continue our tradition with Tom’s Jersey family this year. Only fair. The East Coast Wilps are MOVING, building a beachside retirement home on Florida’s Atlantic. Tom’s last childhood home visit. Life’s meant to be lived – for ALL generations.
We as parents not required to stay feet-planted, caretakers of old homes past. Congrats Steve & Beth!
Early wakes Sunday, my second Easter Sunrise. This season, short 20-minute drive to the Boulder Rez. BEAUTIFUL morning. Laid-back, beach chair/blanket atmosphere. Cross planted at water’s edge. PEACEFUL Lutheran celebration. Day centered on our Creator, His resurrection – & this year, no SNOW.
Daybreak DINER breakfast. Comfort food chosen to replace 5 years of Mexicana past. No tears, change is good. Ash will be back next year. Helps appreciate what ya have/time shared. PLUS, LOVE LOVE a good diner. Dig the buzz of old-timers/diner stool regulars. Heavy grub, FULL belly. Hour nap likely 💤
Diner MEMORIES. Weeklies of Alice, Flo & Vera serving chili (& kissing GRITS) @ Mel’s 😊
Happy Easter y’all. He is Risen ✞
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- Trinity Lutheran, Boulder
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- Easter SUNRISE
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- beach chair/blanket atmosphere
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- He is Risen ✞
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- resurrection celebration
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- post-sunrise DINER treat
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- holiday sleepover
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- CT Easter gifting
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- card from Mom ❤️
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- Mexicana Easter in Jersey
Boulder Rez Easter Sunrise
Happy Easter, Grandma ❤️
Saturday non-marathon plans? Colorado Mammoth vs San Diego Seals.
Black Friday (Nov 2018) promo, ticket price $3.03 (keeping with the month’s 3-0-3 theme). For only $3, who wouldn’t want to see your first Lacrosse match?
MY version: Fast-paced mix of soccer & hockey. Music blared & the game moved crazy quick. 60 minutes total, four 15-minute quarters. Up ‘n down the field; a baseball-sized object tossed player-to-player via hand-held sticks w/ nets.
If you don’t pass [the lacrosse ball] quick enough, expect to be tackled/checked or high-stick’d by the opposing Team. Want the official rules? No idea. Google 🙂
Pepsi Center, fan FILLED. More attendance than an MLS game (go Rapids), even rivaled numbers watching our playoff-bound Denver Nuggets.
Why? The game is crazy FUN – and the pace FAST. Baseball execs, take a second look. LOVE LOVED the physicality of lacrosse. Cool factor HIGH. Fans skew young & bring a hockey anger. Even the Mammoth cheerleaders outshined the NBA Nuggets squad.
Tonite. Game of two very different halves – all San Diego, all Colorado. Ultimately, Seals held for the W, local Mammoth denied.
Would I go back? Absolutely! Go Mammoth!
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- Denver’s Pepsi Center
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- National Lacrosse League
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- fast-paced mix of soccer & hockey
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- Go Mammoth!
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- G-O-A-L 🐘
Colorado Mammoth
Mammoth Draw Crowd of 15,951 on Colorado Night
Colorado drew a Mammoth of a crowd, 15,951 fans, to Pepsi Center on Saturday night for their annual Colorado game. To celebrate the Centennial State, the Mammoth debuted their new Colorado-themed jerseys and brought in local band, Raising Cain, to serenade raucous fans to the sounds of Colorado.
The Mammoth dropped Saturday’s decision to the San Diego Seals 13-10.
By 12:08 in the third quarter, Mammoth were down 10-5, but then they surged. A three-goal run featuring Eli McLaughlin, Ryan Lee and Jeff Wittig brought Colorado within two tallies, 10-8, early in the fourth quarter. Though Colorado’s uptick in energy remained through the end of the game, the Mammoth could not complete their comeback, as back-and-forth action favored the Seals…
