We took a couple of fun days in the mountains last week, managing to get the brood together all at the same time. Went up Tuesday night to an Airbnb condo in Silverthorne, CO and returned Friday morning, so we had two full days to play.
In summary, we hiked, biked, fished, gamed, and ate. I count it all as a success. We had access to a pool, but sort of forgot about swimming. Dang.
The biking bit involved riding up and down Vail Pass, which I'd heard of doing, but this was my maiden voyage.
We made it a mile or so passed the halfway point when Chaco's knees started creaking - it's uphill the whole way from Frisco to the summit. Wolfgang, Meego, and I went on a couple miles further while Magnum and Chaco headed back to check out the marina.
Everyone but myself had rental bikes, and we wanted to make sure to get back to the shop in time not to pay for an additional day.
But first, some victory pics...
In looking at the map after the fact, we turned around about 2 or 3 miles from the summit.
The way back was a total rush. We had no idea we were climbing so steeply until turning around. I sped down the path and watched as Wolfgang and Meego became little blue and red dots respectively.
A few heart palpitations and eaten bugs later, we were all back to downtown Frisco.
Thursday, we hung out in Frisco and hiked around Dillon Reservoir where Chaco tried his luck at some fishing.
Yeah, no luck there...
Ella the pooch was with us. She never sat down. Her favorite part of fishing is when it's time to leave.
We also got in a bit of culture by visiting some historic displays downtown, engaged tourists that we were.
All in all, a positive wrap up for the summer, COVID variants and all.
4 comments:
Congrats for making it up to Vail Pass! I looked it up! Wow!!! Impressive!! A job well done!!
Sounded like a wonderful getaway. Seems like a lot of people I know who went away this summer stayed at AirBnB's. We'll have to try that sometime. Glad the dog could go with you too!!
Beautiful place too to spend a couple of days!! Always being with family having fun is a great way to spend time together and to make lasting memories!!
betty
Wow you are always impressive. I fear another lock down so I am glad you got that in, in the nick of time!
Betty, it was a nice getaway. And now I want to do the full Vail Pass. It was totally doable, we just ran out of time.
Peggy, yeah, me too!
Isn't everyones favourite part of fishing when you leave? :D
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