I haven't posted anything in AGES and that's mostly because I haven't done anything exciting since last year. That makes me rather sad! lol.
I'm back in Buena Vista Colorado this year until October so I'll be repeating some of the hikes I loved the most from last year and hopefully a few new ones. I just LOVE Colorado. I'm also using my iPhone for more picture taking. I haven't felt like lugging around my Canon. lol.
What else is new? Why, TED! TED stands for Totally Excellent Dog (I love acronyms) and I adopted him on June 18th from the Denver Dumb Friends League in, obviously, Denver Colorado. So get used to seeing him in pictures! If you're not a dog lover... pffffft... who wouldn't love Teddy with his teddy?
Teddy is a Heinz 57 mixture but I think there's some hunting cur and terrier in there. Teddy is extremely fearful of people but in time, with lots of patience, I know he'll get much better. He's already walking off leash (when there aren't any other people on the trail) and likes to wake me up with a paw to the face. It's been YEARS since I've had a pet of any kind so Ted and I are slowly getting used to each other.
On a different note, being in Colorado this early in the year means many of the trails I love are still covered in snow. I've tried the Ptarmigan Lake trail 3 times now - only to lose the trail a mile from the lake every time. lol
Here's Teddy in the Twin Lakes. He's not much of a swimmer.
The road up to the Alpine Tunnel trail was still impassable when I tried it a week ago. I'm not sure Teddy ever saw snow before, as he was sent to Denver from Texas, but he sure had a blast running circles around in it.
This is a hike I didn't do last year. The Brown's Creek Trail up to the waterfall - a 6 miles round trip on a dusty, but not very busy, trail. You can actually hike an additional 3.5 miles to Browns Lake but I don't have that kind of stamina.
It's a steady climb about 1.7 miles then it levels out through the woods and a beautiful meadow. There's a few creek crossings - all with bridges - and the waterfall is quite spectacular now that the snow is melting.
