If it’s just going to rain down low, we ought to just go high and enjoy the new snow. A day of backcountry skiing at Rocky Mountain National Park’s defunct ski area, Hidden Valley, seemed the best use of the day. A trip which of course had to include a stop at the Donut Haus [...]
Archive for April 24th, 2011
Hidden Valley skiing
Posted in skiing, tagged backcountry skiing, Hidden Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park on April 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Southern Jeff Co Parks
Posted in hiking, tagged Jefferson County Open Space, Pine Valley Ranch Park, Reynolds Park on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Plans to go ice and snow climbing (or just end up taking our tools for a long walk) fell through, so I drove through falling snow on US 285 to visit a few of Jefferson County’s Open Space parks I hadn’t yet hiked through. Loosing elevation after Pine Junction the sky brightened a bit and [...]
Boulder Direct
Posted in climbing, tagged Boulder Direct, Eldorado Canyon, rock climbing, Wind Tower on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Weather and schedules hadn’t really aligned yet this spring for Gary and I to return to after-work rock climbing. Friday seemed windy, but do-able, so we headed into Eldo and decided to start on Wind Tower’s Boulder Direct. I got the first, easier, but runout at the start, pitch and took it to the ledge [...]
