It’s been longer since my last post than I like to let pass between blogs. I hope it’s a fluke and not a developing pattern.
Settling [back] into Aspen has been great. Familiar friends, familiar hang-outs, and a familiar job. It’s a lot like coming home, but home usually has more snow… When there’s no snow in Aspen, usually summer, lots of locals check out Moab, Utah. Since the ski conditions stink and we’ve never been to Moab, Kate and I made the drive out to Utah this past week and had a good time in the desert.
Night time temperatures were originally predicted to be around 30 degrees on Thursday night. Based on Friday’s reports and the layer of iced formed on the inside of the tent in the morning, I estimate a low more like 5. I feel like the extra money to get the zero degree sleeping bag 4 years ago was finally worth it. I knew I would need it at some point!
After waking Friday morning, we chipped as much ice off the tent as we could and headed to Arches National Park. The trip was very cool and the land was beautiful, I’ve included some pictures you can click on below. We bought our annual pass for the National Parks while at Arches, so hopefully I’ll have lots more (at least 80 bucks worth) to share with you from the National Parks System over the next year. I definitely want to hit either Yellowstone or Yosemite. I’ve never been to either and would like to go to both.
Meanwhile, back in Colorado…
We got in total close to a foot on the mountains this week. In addition to the snow, I’m all revved up this week to watch the Broncos take on my New England Patriots. It will be an emotional and hopefully happy Saturday night. I’ve found that even the real Coloradans find Tebow a bit of a joke, so I hope we can put the Kabbash on this 2011 passing fad. Tebowing!? Seriously… GO PATS!
That is all, I’ll try to write more frequently! Enjoy my pictures below, I think I got some good ones.
James
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- This is a 2 mile hike we took on the way into Moab. It was just next to Cisco, which I believe is an abandoned Uranium mining town.
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- Took this shot driving into Moab Thursday evening. Just a precursor to the beautiful scenery ahead.
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- The view across the road from our campsite. Most of the rock like this in the Moab area is sandstone.
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- About 5 degrees, our tent set up for the night.
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- My first pictures of the morning down the Colorado River which we had set our tent up by the evening before. After this, we quickly headed for the Moad Diner for a delicious and recommendable breakfast.
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- Lanscape Arch, 306 ft in width…. it became wider in 1991.
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- One shot of many in Arches National Park. One of the most beautiful views I’ve ever had.
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- A tree that looked totally amazing to me, again in Arches National Park.
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- A final shot as we head out of the park, hop on I-70, and head back for work in the morning.
