Mesa Verde

We are lucky enough to get to travel all around Colorado and visit beautiful places all the time so sometimes we forget the beautiful place we live.

Mesa Verde National Park

Park Lookout from the entrance 

Andy in his turn out gear

Spruce Tree House from the CRO porch

STH

Full moon over STU

The Rabbit and Oql on STH trail

Petroglyph Panel

Square Tower House

Cliff Palace

Our White House

Bear in back of Morefield house - it was bigger than what it looks

Zephy getting presented to the world on Lion King Hill - Phil's World

Mesa Verde from Phil's World

La Platas - Favorite mountains 

First snow August 22, 2014

Fall in the La Platas - 2013

Winter 2014

Summer 2014

Inversion in August a rare sight

Looking west torward the La Platas 

Summer's Last Hurray 8/2014

We never get tired of Ridgway, Co so we decided to spend our last summer camping trip there.  I think the pictures below explain why we love it so much. 

Ridgway is one of the best places in the world to see Alpenglow. 

Looking back toward the sunset. 

Andy with the Aliner

Poor pup, waiting for us to finish dinner. When we are in Ridgway we love going to Thai Paradise. 

Andy tried to cut his finger with the ax. Luckily he missed. 

Grand Lake, CO and Front Range Trip 7.23.14

We were fortunate enough to get 4 days off in July. A big feat when you both work for the park service. 

Stop 1: Red Rocks Amplitheater, Morrison, CO Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden 

3 Rangers at the concert

Stop 2:  Waterwold

We had so much fun we forgot to take pictures. Highlight; the new water coaster 

Stop 3: Grand Lake, Blue Ridge Trail, and the Eastman Camp

From the ridge with grand lake in background 

Zeph, Winter and Eazy

Selfie!

View from The Grand Lake lodge

Double Rainbow

Downtown Grand Lake

The Eastman Camp

Eazy and Zeph

Stop 4: Rocky Mountain National Park

Mesa Verde is only 265 miles away

Marmot : or a whistle pig

Pika, hard to tell where it is. Code name; alpine farmer

Mesa Verde needs some signs like Rocky has. The bear below had to be captured and released in a remote area. It was having too much fun knocking down hummingbird feeders. 

A natural stair climber

Near the Colorado River headwaters