Pictures!

Slowly but surely Im adding pictures to Facebook for the world. But with 1,200+ pictures its taking a while here are all the pictures from Zion.

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Home

We'll we are now home. We left Saturday and arrived at our various houses between 11pm and 2am last night. We were supposed to come home this coming Saturday, but with a lot less things to and money getting low we planned to come home tuesday instead. But when we arrived at our campsite Saturday night, we talked things over because the mountainwe were supposed to climb the next day has a road all the way to the top. Which takes the fun out of climbing it. So we discussed our options, and then some one mentioned going home Sunday so we looked at that option and then some one said lets just go home now, the car is already packed. So we did. We droe to the top of Mt. Evans, came down and headed to Denver and came home.

We stopped in St. Louis to see and go up the arch on Sunday and finally made it home last night at different hours of the night.

Look for a some look back posts with fun stories and LOTS of pictures(1,700+) in the next few days.

Colorado...

After climbing Mt. Massive, we were exhausted. But we conserved some energy on the way down the mountain by sliding through a snow field for .3 miles on our rear ends. It was quite fun.

The foloowing day was deemed another rest day, but since we had already done everything in Leadville and Buena Vista, Mark suggested we find out how far Vail is from our campsite. And sure enough it was only 30 minutes away. So away we went.

At Vail we discovered the Teva Mountain Games were going on. We watched some kayak competitions, drove some VW Touerags, and got some free sawg and t-shirts.

Today we went and climbed the Decalibron which is a collection of 4 14ers (Mt. Democrat, Mt. Cameron, Mt. Lincoln, Mt. Bross). Mark, Jordan, and I did all 4 mountains, but Timothy came down with altitude sickness after Mt. Lincoln and waited for us back at the car.

After our work out we went into Breckenridge and ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. were we had nice big hearty meals. After this we scoured I-70 east for a cheap hotel. After much searching we are in Georgetown, CO at a Super 8. Tomorrow we are going to Denver to chill for the day, and will camp Saturday and Sunday night near Mt. Evans. This will be our last 14er which we will climb on Sunday. And on Monday we leave for Georgia.

From 14,414 ft

Greetings from Mt Massive. Im probably the highest person in the lower 48 states right now. We all made it up here!

Mt Elbert Folly

Well that was interesting. We attempted to climb Mt. Elbert, the highest peak in Colorado, but me and Tim turned around about .25 mile from the top. We are waiting at tree line for mark and jordan. They kept going when we turned back. Not sure if they made it to the top though. We turned back because of the weather and slight exhaustion.

Colorado

Hello from Aspen. We arrived here yesterday where we slept in a USFS day use parking lot in the car. We then woke up at sunrise and finished sleeping in the Buttermilk ski report parking lot. After that we hung around Aspen for a few hours, and then headed to the Mt Elbert trailidad to camp so we can climb it tomorrow.

Pictures!

Thanks to the internet here at the Best Western we now have some pictures for you. I uploaded all of my Grand Canyon Pictures, but none of them have captions or what not so you have no idea whats going on, so I will not upload any more pictures till we get home, that way you can find out what's going on.

Timothy on the hand uploaded all of his photos so we have a link to that too.

Grand Canyon (Kyle)
Grand Canyon II (Kyle)
Grand Canyon III (Kyle)

When the trip is done I will add captions to those pictures.

Enjoy!

Tomorrow we leave our nice hotel to go whitewater rafting and on Saturday we head to Colorado.

Return From The Arctic

Just returned from Arctic Camp 1 where we camped in 3+ feet of snow, chased marmots, and Jordan & Mark sledded down the mountain on ponchos. We are now headed back into Jackson to eat and find a hotel. Expect more pictures tonight.

Jackson Hole

We are now in Jackson Hole, WY. We took our first shower in a week, ate awesome burgers, and are headed to buy some groceries.

Who Says You Cant Make Snow Angels In May?

We are now in grand teton np. But our route is once again blocked by snow. We are heading to Jackson for showers, food, and to decide what to do now. But it hasnt been all bad with the snow, yesterday in Yellowstone we stopped and played in the snow drifts and Jordan even made a snow angel. Should have some pictures in a few days hopefully.