Sunday, June 11, 2006

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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Monday, June 05, 2006

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.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

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.