Tag: adventure
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Climbing our first fourteener – Mt. Princeton
On the Saturday before we left Colorado, Javier and I climbed a mountain. Not just any old mountain – we climbed Mt. Princeton, a 14,000 ft (aka fourteener) mountain that stands among the collegiate peaks, including Mt. Yale, Mt. Columbia and Mt. Harvard, among others. This was a beast of a mountain, and the first […]
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Visiting South Park City
Last Friday, Javi and I planned to do some more hiking around Buena Vista but my cousin Andrew advised us to conserve our energy for our big climb on Saturday. Instead, we decide to drive to Fairplay, CO and visit an open-air museum for South Park City, another abandoned town but completely restored. It was […]
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St. Elmo and Salida
On Thursday after hiking up to Agnes Vaille Falls, Javier found a ghost town (St. Elmo) on the map not far from the hike so we decided to go check it out. It was about 1/2 an hour away and a beautiful drive to the town, which was built in the 1820’s and hasn’t had […]
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Hiking Around Buena Vista
When Javi and I didn’t have anything planned during our stay in Buena Vista we went hiking on different trails. Our friend Jen recommended Angel Falls and our B&B host Connie told us to check out Cottonwood Pass, so we decided to take them both up on their suggestions. In between horseback riding and the […]