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Canyon Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO
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Posted: 5/18/2007, 10:35 pm Post subject: Everything is GREEN |
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For Mothers Day my wife and I decided to head up to Boulder to do some hiking. Since she is in her 2nd trimester, she has gained some of her strength back. THey say it's the best trimester, and so far it's proving to be true.
We went to Chitaqua park and went to see where our feet would take us. Everything there was so vivrently green and there were catapiller nests everywhere. We decided to hike to the top of the Flatirons. This was quite a feet considering she has not gone hiking in quite a while. The elevation gain was about 1,400 feet up, and proved to be fairly steep. Once we reached the top we could see the Front Range/indian Peaks and Rocky Mountain NP. The mountains were coated in snow. It was quite a site seeing snow capped mountains above the emerald green mountains. We went in the afternoon when the clouds have come out, so we were not being blasted by the hot sun. We got sprinkeled on once briefly. We could not have picked a better day. My only regret is that I forgot my Camera... _________________ Mountains are there to be climbed!
"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2 |
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Trishness The Snake Charmer
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2530 Location: Apache Jct, AZ
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Posted: 5/18/2007, 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Steven,
I didn't know y'all were expecting! Congratulations! The baby is due in October??? Not that I'm biased on that month or anything
Sounds like a great way to spend Mother's (and Mother's to be) Day. I hope the rest of this trimester and the third one are smooth sailing.
_________________ ~~~Trish~~~
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings. |
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beckett
Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 1066
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Posted: 5/19/2007, 3:18 am Post subject: |
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Congratulations on the baby! Tell your wife Happy Mother's Day from all of us on AZH!
Linda _________________ "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-- Walter Winchell, American newspaper commentator |
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Canyon Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO
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Posted: 5/19/2007, 9:10 am Post subject: |
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Trishness wrote: |
Steven,
I didn't know y'all were expecting! Congratulations! The baby is due in October??? Not that I'm biased on that month or anything
Sounds like a great way to spend Mother's (and Mother's to be) Day. I hope the rest of this trimester and the third one are smooth sailing.
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I had posted that we were pregnant a few months ago on this thread...
http://www.arizonahikers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6023&start=0
The baby is due on Nov. 4th, so your guess on october is close, but who knows, could come in the end of October. _________________ Mountains are there to be climbed!
"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2 |
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JW I'll make rain with my spaceman powers!
Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 1296
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Posted: 5/19/2007, 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Congratulations to you guys! Steven, which way did you go? The Boulder side of the Flatirons is more than just a hike, dude! _________________ What a magnificent time to LIVE! - Everett Ruess.
Since my house burned down, I now own a better view of the rising moon. - Masahide. |
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Canyon Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO
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Posted: 5/19/2007, 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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JW wrote: |
Congratulations to you guys! Steven, which way did you go? The Boulder side of the Flatirons is more than just a hike, dude! |
Yes we were on the Boulder side. There is a trail that leads up between the Second and Third Flatiron. It ends just behind the Third Flatiron. There was switchbacks almost the whole way, but because the flatirons are so close togather the switchbacks are very short, maybe 40 steps across each one. _________________ Mountains are there to be climbed!
"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2 |
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