mullerb's musings

A slushy Sat AM hike with Rach.

The calm before the storm - sort of. Tonight's forecast: rain turning to snow by midnight; 1-2 feet by Thursday AM. But not today: 50's and jsut a slight northeasterly breeze.

Rach and I abandoned the kiddos for 4 hours on this windy Sat AM to climb the steepest east face in the Flatirons. It's a really neat hike up to the formation from the Mallory Cave trail. The woods and rocks are cool. And the winds and lack of sun made for a cool morning of belaying the 2 and quarter pitches. Yet another exciting 100+ft, mostly free hanging rappel off of two solid bolts on the west side of the summit.

Beautiful crisp fall day, sun, 51F. Long and fast ride with grand fall colors and white tipped mountain backdrop.

The Independence/57th//Jay/trail loop on a very drizzly day. The best weather for a run!

Worked from home and took advantage over lunch to get a ride in on the Eldo trails. Parked at Marshal and rode south then across 93 to the new trails. Sweet views including the gal that was bare-topped, soaking in the sun on this late fall summer day :-)

An early Saturday AM walk and brunch with Rachel while Kelly took PSATs.

Cold, foggy day around 40F. Nice and fast and not much sweat. Had to rush cut it short with a turn around on Lookout due to a 1PM meeting.

Yet another solo jaunt, this one a rare solo hike on a Saturday. Crummy cold winter weather, first of the year, with socked in skies and 3 inches of snow on the ground. Left the house at 10:30 to hike up Bear Mt, over to South Boulder Peak, then down Shadow Canyon to return via the Mesa Trail by 2:30. Only came across a handful of people on this icy day. Very nice in that way. Haven't been up on SoBoPeak in ages! I can't wait to go back with views as I couldn't see more than a few hundred yards through the thick, supercooled droplets.

A cool day with a strong need for a lunch ride. The usual solo stint. Not a lot of riding time this week. My work schedule with meetings is killing the ride effort.

A family outing up Seal Rock. A 4-some up to the shoulder where Leah and I bailed out so that Rach and Kelly could more quickly boogie up to the top and to avoid the terror of the rappel for Leah :-) Cool temps in the 50's but mostly blue skies and yellow leaves with great views and a relaxing attitude by all.

A short post-work climb up to the overlook. I sure did want to do more but I didn't leave work early enough and I had to get Leah from violin at 6. Still a good ride and I did stop to take in the mnt views.