Thursday, September 15, 2011

Our Rocky Mountain Summer

Grant summiting Imogene Pass (13,100ft!)

Carson at Red Feather Lakes


Swimming at Red Feather

The Stupa at the Shambhala Center, Red Feather Lakes

Dads after Steamboat Trail Run



9 of the 18 kids in Steamboat

Quinn at Cutthroat

Camping at Cutthroat Bay


Santa Fe
Quinn milking a goat

Grant and boys in Santa Fe with their Poppy


Cole's post-camp arms covered in girls' phone numbers
Although I felt like my mind was a captive of our house remodel all summer, we did get to enjoy some fun times around Boulder and some new spots in Colorado.    In June, the boys went to a two week YMCA summer camp (Camp Santa Maria) in the mountains of Bailey, Colorado, where they got their first taste of being away from home.  Cole came home with his arms covered in girls' phone numbers, a solid sign that a request to return to Santa Maria might be in store next summer.  In August, we weekended with 6 other families (18 children, one house!) in Steamboat Springs, where Grant and 4 other dads ran a 15 mile trail race;  friends Kita and Toby organized a mutli-family camping get-away at Cutthroat Bay near Granby just before school started on August 15th;  Grant visited his dad in Santa Fe over a long weekend with Cole and Quinn; friends Eric and Faire invited us to spend Labor Day weekend in Red Feather Lakes; and just last weekend Grant ran the famous Imogene Pass Race, a  17.1 mile point-to-point mountain race, which connects the towns of Ouray (7810 ft.) and Telluride (8750 ft.) by way of 13,114 foot Imogene Pass.    

1 comment:

  1. amazing photos. i especially like the one of quinn at cutthroat and the cow being milked photo.

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