I was up in Summit County, Colorado (Frisco and Breckenridge, specifically) for a friend’s wedding this weekend. The fathers of the bride and groom, my dad, and a few of their friends all decided to do a hike the day before the wedding. I was impressed with how well they did considering most of them are about 30 years older than me and they were all coming from low elevations, with one coming from an elevation of a couple dozen feet (Florida).
Bob picked a relatively easy trail up to the Continental Divide–that line across the Rockies that separates the water runoff from going to either the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans. We gained about 2,000 feet over 3-4 miles with a high elevation above the treeline–somewhere around 12,500 feet. The entire hike was through a beautiful mountain valley with wildflowers and a stream running along the bottom at the lower elevations. In the pictures you’ll see that Bob throwing snowballs from a snow patch he had found, Rick skipping stones off a pool in the creek, and everybody having an all-around good time.
