What fun to host old friends visiting from Oregon a few weeks ago. We spent a day touring the Rocky Mountain National Park, following Trail Ridge Road to the Alpine Visitor Center where Richard and I got engaged ten years ago. Of course we stopped at several lookouts on the way up and back. It was by far the best weather I’ve seen up there with no ominous clouds rolling in at lunch time. Our intention was to hike around Sprague Lake in the afternoon but spending over two hours at the Visitor Center and slowly enjoying the observation points left us no time to spare getting home to host our church cell group that evening. (We arrived with fifteen minutes to spare!) We gave our guests directions to Sprague Lake and left them to finish up the afternoon by themselves before continuing their journey toward Colorado Springs.
We climbed The Dam Store tower heading into the canyon
Gabriel enjoyed climbing rocks wherever we stopped
Melody in the mountains
Gabriel and his dad, possibly at Many Parks Curve?
Mama and Trevor, at Many Parks Curve?
Jaron climbing around too
Gabriel and Melody make it to the top
The vastness of RMNP
Lightning safety talk at the Visitor Center
Gabriel is wearing raingear and sitting cross-legged on top of a backpack
View probably from the Gore Range viewpoint
Field of elk
Melody and Trevor at Rock Cut, one of my favorite viewpoints
All of us at Rock Cut
Marmot peeking out from the rocks
Trevor and the Continental Divide (the section straight above his head)
This is my favorite picture of the day!