On a very cold dark morning… We started climbing through snow, ice, creeks, and dry ground. Up to 10,000 ft. 11,000 ft. 12,00 ft. At 13,800 ft, I clocked out due to hypoxia. Stephen kept going to 14,200 ft. He reached the summit to Mt. Bierstadt! I don’t have those pictures since I was huddled …
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This morning, we woke up to much better conditions. Bright sun and we were not freezing our fingers off. We had 2 objectives today. We have to figure out which mountain to climb. This mostly depends on conditions of the trails. It would be either Mt. Bierstadt in Georgetown with a 7 mile round trip …
Sunday After a quick breakfast on the road we started the drive towards the next camp site. For this trip we are alternating camping with condo. First round is camping in high elevation. That might be a bad idea…. Anyway breakfast with the best Paleo granola I have found. Steve’s Paleo Goods. And a citrus …
After 20 hours of driving, many stops for gas and coffee, plains, hills, storms, and roadkill, we finally made it back to Colorado. This is our 6th summer here and I hope the time passes SLOWLY. I need this big reset button and if there is a mountain, we must climb it. The drive in …
My Easter weekend was filled with some of my favorite things. A boy and his bacon. Easter Egg dying traditions. These cups are as old or older than I am. They were always the egg-dying cups. Watching “stoppin’ Frozen” with J. He called it that because that’s what the girl was trying to do..stoppin the …
This is in NO WAY the actual recap of my weekend in Austin for Paleo FX 2014. It was such a great weekend and I’m absolutely in love with the city of Austin. We didn’t even scratch the surface of this town. I’m still trying to get all my thoughts together about the whole weekend. …
First of all, this was the forecast: Look for Tuscaloosa. See that? a DUSTING. Tuesday morning, all was normal. Kids at school. People at work. I’m stuck on the couch coughing my flu head off. I went back to sleep. Anybody who knows me knows that I am OBSESSED with snow. But not this time. …
I lived through the Snowpocalypse 2014 and I got plenty mad at all the northern folks making fun of us over snow (It wasn’t snow…it was ice. Big difference). However, after I got my chocolate and hot toddy (medicinal purposes, pinky swear) I let go of the irritation and decided to pick some clever …
Five days of this One half-marathon And plenty of this means I’m ready for one thing. SLEEP! It’s been a great weekend and it will take me another week to get all the pictures and details ready. For now, I have to get laundry going and try to get my mind ready to return to …
Alabama 31-Colorado State 6 A couple of years ago, when I heard that Alabama would be playing Colorado State this year, I started furiously searching the car, couch, Frankie’s bathroom for pennies. I was going to be on a plane to Colorado for that game. Instead, I’m sitting at home, stretched out on the couch. …
Every now and then, conversations between Stephen and myself border on the insane. Take this one last week. Me: I subscribed to the newspaper. Stephen: Why in the world did you do that? Me: umm…because I like reading about local stuff. Stephen: We have lived here 8 years and you have never once talked about …
Alabama 49-Texas A&M 42 It was a fantastic game. Now that it is over and I’m completely exhausted from cheering, hand-wringing, verbally abusing a ref with an itchy hand holding a yellow flag, and eating a lot of really good nachos, I can say it was a fantastic game. I get the Wife-of-the-Year award …
Well, we won the game. But it was not pretty. The O line looked shaky. I saw way too many rushed passes by A.J because his pocket was a big mess. I’m trying to keep in mind that it’s just like a school year. How the team looked in January is far different from …
It’s finally here. For many of us–as in the entire state of Alabama including pets, barnyard animals, and infants—-the arrival of the first football game is what enables us to survive the depths of humidity hell. Football makes everything better. What am I looking forward to the most? 1. Tailgating food. This little …
This campground has sites on the outer loop that are more secluded than those on the inner circle. They have more shade, as well. We were at site 9 and it had river access, too. Once again, we seemed to have a prime site. Matterhorn has bath houses with showers and flushable toilets which seemed …
This is our last full day in Telluride, so we needed to stretch our legs and get in a good climb. This morning, we got an early start for a half day climb up to Ophir Pass. This is a 2,000ft climb to the elevation of 11,790. It is one of the easiest hikes in …
After we spent the morning in town, we drove up to Alta Lakes for some fishing and reading. I was deeply involved in a Nora Roberts book and the weather was perfect for some lake side sitting and reading. On the way up to the lakes, there is an abandoned mining village. Creepy, but I …
Finally, I got to see a Farmer’s Market in Telluride! The previous years, we stayed Sunday-Thursday and the market is on Friday. I was not going to miss this! This is one of the most progressive cities in the sustainable food movement. Eating local or regional is a non-negotiable to this small town. I knew …
This is the 4th year to Telluride and some of these pictures look familiar. This morning, I slept in and read by the breakfast fire while Stephen went fishing. After eating leftover soup and hot dogs, we decided to drive into town and get some ice cream. It was getting hot (for Colorado..so about 78*) …
We got up early and packed up quickly. It takes about an hour to break camp and pull out for the next stop. We drove out of Aspen and stopped for lunch at Whole Foods. I wanted a big salad and he wanted Sushi. We kept driving until we got to Montrose, which is the …