Commerce City, Colorado

Jun 21, 2014

We did today's hike in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, CO. Beautiful place in sight of downtown Denver.Our hike today was mostly flat (no change in elevation), but a little longer at 5.75 miles. The first mile or so we watched 2 mule deer play. They ran and jump almost the whole time.

Erie, Colorado

Jun 16, 2014

We officially started our 16 week training today. Gary and I took to the hills in our neighborhood this morning putting in a 40 minute hike. The dots in the picture are hot air balloons. A pretty common sight this time of year in our neighborhood. Beautiful morning and a great time hiking together!

Boulder, Colorado

Jun 15, 2014

Our second hike was the Enchanted Mesa Trail. This trail was a little longer with a l bit of elevation change. The trail was 2.95 miles and we hiked for 1.5 hours. Change in elevation was 500 ft. This was a very pretty trail with lots of scenery. The good news, no equipment failure. The camelback bladder held its water this time!

Boulder, Colorado

Jun 8, 2014

This was a prehike to try out our shoes and equipment. The hike was 2.25 miles long and took about an hour. We had one equipment failure in Gary's Camelback bladder leaked. I'm hoping it is just because I didn't get it closed securely! Shoes are great!

Boulder, Colorado

May 26, 2014

We started our training for the Grand Canyon by participating in the Bolder Boulder 10K on Memorial Day.