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Vindicator Valley Trail
What this trail is missing in elevation gain and shade and water it makes up for in history. We spent a day in Cripple Creek last summer visiting the Vindicator Valley Trail and exploring some of the...
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Great Sand Dunes Visit 2016
(For my full review of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, see this link.) On our annual trip to the Sand Dunes we saw worse weather than we have before (Saturday’s winds kept us from getting to...
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REI Anniversary Sale Favorite Things
(This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase something based on my recommendation, I would love it if you used these links–thanks!) Hurray! It’s time for my second favorite sale of all!...
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Gray Back Peak Hiking Trail Review
We checked out this new to us hike last weekend and were thrilled to discover that the dirt road to the trailhead is in fantastic shape (truthfully it was in better shape than the road to our house)....
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Triceratops Trail
Triceratops Trail is perfectly partnered with Dinosaur Ridge. If you can only visit one, Dinosaur Ridge is the easy choice, but Triceratops Trail adds more obviously foot shaped bulges as well as...
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Dinosaur Ridge
We visited Dinosaur Ridge and nearby Triceratops Trail last 4th of July weekend and it was amazing. While neither of these are really ‘hikes,’ they are Super Educational and Awesome Walks well worth...
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That time Will and I drove to Estes Park and back
Labor Day weekend did not go as planned. It was supposed to be a glorious backpacking trip to end our summer, and I’d made the Rocky Mountain National Park reservations months in advance and was so...
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Backpacking Trip | Goblins Forest | Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park has many designated wilderness sites that you can reserve beginning March 1st of each year. Each trip costs $20 regardless of the number of nights you stay or how many...
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Mirror Lake Hike | Snoqualmie Pass
While we were visiting my sister-in-law and brother-in-law at their house at Snoqualmie Pass, we were able to go on a couple of hikes. I asked Erik for something that was 3-4 miles with a beautiful...
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Denny Creek Waterslides | Snoqualmie, WA
When I read about the Denny Creek waterslides I was all “How did my mother not take me to this?!” A natural waterpark an hour away from our house? How had I never tried this? When I got there I...
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Chasm Lake Hiking Trail Review
Chasm Lake is a Rocky Mountain National Park destination that gets lots of acclaim, but at 8.4 miles, it is deservedly called a difficult hike. I was hesitant to attempt it in its entirety with the...
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Pie Iron Recipes – Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, and Desserts
My favorite part of car camping is experimenting with new pie iron recipes. Over the last several years we’ve had the opportunity to test out and invent a lot of recipes! Some of these are popular...
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