=20 Early this morning, we headed out to Pike's Peak; leaving camp
just before = 8am. Upon arrival, we were dissapointed to hear that
only the first 13 of = the 19 miles were open, due to "fog". (read:
clouds) On the plus side, we= were told it could burn off, and the
admission was half price. We decided= to give it a go, killed some
time in the gift store, etc. By the time we = reached the closed
section, they had opened it again, and we could drive al= l the way to
the top. There were still sections obscured by clouds though,= and the
entire summit was covered in clouds, so unfortunately there was ab=
solutely no view from the top. However, we were greeted with some very
nic= e views on the way up and down. Some of those views are included
below, al= though naturally the pictures simply cannot do justice to
the real thing.
Tom got his truck back today, fixed and ready to go, so that is a=
good thing. After Pike's Peak, we were going to meet up with Jason's
pare= nts at a shooting range to punch some holes in paper and also
possibly get = in some paintball, but due to the time and distances
involved, that didn't = work out. Walt, Ingrid, Mike, Ed, and myself
went out geocaching in the af= ternoon to find some caches with travel
bugs in them. Unfortunately we did= not locate any travel bugs, but we
did find a couple of caches, one of whi= ch required a hike of about a
mile and a quarter or so. Although the cache= didn't contain the
travel bug which was supposed to be there, the scenery = was very
nice. Along the way to this cache, we stumbled across some signs = of
recent bear activity, but didn't actually see anything more dangerous
th= an a rabbit and a gaggle of Canadian geese.
Afterwards, we all m= et at the Black Bear restaurant
(www.blackbearrestaurant.com) at 8:30 for some dinner. The food w= as
excellent! Afterwards, we headed back to camp for the evening bonfire.
= Actually, I'm just headed for the bonfire now. It has been a week of
long= days and short nights, which I think is starting to catch up to
me a bit a= s I am really tired tonight. I might turn in (relatively)
early, and sleep= in a bit tomorrow morning before packing up to catch
my flight home. Unle= ss of course we decide to do some more
geocaching in the morning, which mig= ht be a possibility.
Following are a few pics = from the day:
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A picture o= f our campground, since I just realized I had forgotten
to take one. My te= nt is the red one to the left.
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Another campground pic.
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Pike's Peak
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The entire group at the summit of Pike's Peak
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The DML's very own sa= squatch
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A pro= blem and a solution. Also known as "is this log too big for our
fire ring?= " Not with a sufficient quantity of flammable liquid, it
isn't... :-)
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A vi= ew of the northernmost finger of Rampart Reservoir, from the
geocache area.=
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