Meadow Creek Reservoir

This weekend we headed up to Meadow Creek Reservoir to do a little camping. The lake is located near the southern tip of RMNP in the Arapahoe National Forest. It's a beatiful lake with views of great mountains and supposedly full of several types of trout. I saw the mountains - but I cannot confirm that there were any fish in the lake. I'll have to assume that because I didn't catch any, then there must not have been any. That's the approach I will take regarding all fishing holes moving forward.

Anyways, back to the trip. It's a nice drive over Berthoud's Pass and through Winter Park to get to the site. The last 10 miles or so are all mountain dirt roads with tons of pot holes and a few mud holes that I'm sure Kristie appreciated me driving really fast through. But you can't hide red neck for too long......

 These pics didn't turn out that great but you get what we were going for

 Just a couple of fellas sitting on top of a big rock

 The camp site from atop the rock

Chillin by the fire....

 Who eats hot dogs when you are only 100 yards away from your car?

 Whipping up some bacon in the A.M.

 Breakfast; bacon and egg tacos with avocado. Not too shabby

Big Weekend

It was a big weekend for this old boy.......
Started it out with Marzycks burgers before heading over to Trampled By Turtles at the Ogden.
Saturday was the big Eric Church show at Red Rocks.
We closed out the weekend with a 9 mile round trip hike to Ypsilon Lake in RMNP.


Trampled by Turtles

Carlock and Me getting down at the TBT show

 Brantley Gilbert warming up the crowd for Eric Church

Kristie and me at the show

 Eric Church laying it down at Red Rocks

Kristie wishing I wasn't walking so slow

This river was created when the Lawn Lake dam broke and flooded the entire valley into Estes Park, killing 3 campers (Deb Downer makes her first guest appearance)

Sporting the jacket Matt hooked me up with. We were hit by sunshine, rain and snow within an hour of each other. Pretty standard for spring time at elevation in CO

Kristie crossing the footbridge. If you look close enough you'll see that her back pack looks completely empty of supplies......did I mention that it rained and snowed?

Official "hiker near water pose"

Chipmunk Lake. A small little pond before the main event

Kristie coming down the last half mile of snow covered trail. You'd think the water bottle would be in her pack by now during the steep snow descent, but I guess she refused to put ANYTHING in that puppy!!!!

The views from Ypsilon Lake. A cool 10,650 ft above Thomaston

On the way out, I figured out how she was hiking so quickly...I was carrying the poncho, jacket, neck warmer and extra water that she planned to use and I had no clue......

We finally made it back to the car and headed into Estes for a burger. I was pooped.

Fishing the high country

I wish it was titled "catching fish in the high country" but sadly that wasn't what happened. At least I got to hike some of God's Country and I got to tell another person - "that's where my sis got engaged." They never seem to care Katie but I tell them anyways.

Well I guess fishing today has inspired me to fire up a blog. I'll try to keep those who might care updated on life out here and chronicle any outdoor adventure that I might get into. I'll probably only be blogging after the weekends so I wouldn't waste much time checking for new blogs too often (that means you Jeanna & Katie)

Here's some photos from today's trip.

We were somewhere around 12,000 ft.

 As you can see it was snowing.

Rookie.....

 The clouds finally parting as we were leaving the park.

And this is a little video of my buddy Jeff trying to retrieve a $4 lure from a lake that was completely frozen over until about a week ago. Was it worth it? Well it was for me. haha.

 Needless to say, this ended the day for us.