November 1st???

Someone told me a couple of weeks ago that your Birthday can last the entire month. Well, we decided to take full advantage of that yesterday. I received a wonderful gift from a friend of mine of a gas card. So we filled the truck and headed up to Alma, Colorado. Surrounded by 14K mountains, we knew we would not be disappointed with the hike! Now, while the temperature in Denver yesterday was a beautiful 75 degrees, up at 13K feet, the temperature was a chilly 29 degrees as we started the hike. Thus the reason we are all bundled up. We trudged through snow that was waist deep and ended up soaking wet. However, we had a wonderful time!


Waiting for PawPaw to head on up.


We are ready to go with our new gear. Thanks honey!!


I set the camera down on the frozen ice up at Emma lake and snapped this photo.


A snowy view.


Mike is getting the snow out of his boot.

Ice inside one of the mine shafts. Most of them were blocked off but this one allowed us to get back about 20 feet. Kind of cool but no gold...

We hiked up to the small black hole you see in the middle of the photo to sit out of the wind for lunch. It got nice and toasty as we enjoyed our lunch. I managed to take a short little nap while Mike snapped several photos.

Topos is listening to the ice shift on the lake below. He was pretty worn out!

Hanging out by the lake.

Hiking around the lake with the puppies. Both Mike and I managed a couple of bruises but nothing too serious. It was worth it!

After the hike, we drove some of the jeep roads in the area. We made it up the mountain quite a distance before the snow was too deep to drive through. We are definitely going back to this area in the summer time. We could climb four fourteeners in just a couple of days without too much trouble! It is just a matter of getting over the altitude sickness and camping a few days...

Well, I'm going back to watching some football.

C'ya!