Hanging Lake in Winter

Hello, last week Geri and I hiked up to Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon on our way home from Aspen. The lake and Spouting Rock, which is above the lake, is an amazing area to explore at any time of the year. It's about a mile straight up and when it is covered in snow and ice you need to be prepared, with hiking poles and in Geri's case, Yak Trax. Yak Trax pull over your hiking boots and give you traction on slippery surfaces.
Cheers, Kent

Aspen at Christmas

Hello, we spent Christmas '08 in the Roaring Fork Valley south of Aspen with the Broome family and many old and new friends. Four main themes developed: dogs, snow, friends and skiing. 

Cheers, Kent

Snow Hiking

Steve Wilson
Hello, last week I took advantage of a beautiful autumn day to go hiking up high in the mountains near Loveland Ski Area. My friend Steve Wilson and I hiked in, on and though snow climbing above timberline for about 1,500 feet before stopping to have lunch sitting on some big rocks in the sun. It was too early in the snow season to ski into such back country areas but it was fun hiking the snow.
Cheers, Kent
Me!!!
Coyote tracks

Welcome to Winter in Colorado

Here are a few pictures from a somewhat recent trip to the mountains around Aspen and Basalt. Colorado is having a record breaking snow year, at least in the mountains. It can be fun if you like to play in the snow but it can also make for a long winter and the spring melt will be interesting. For me there is something special about being in the mountains during the winter. Colorado is at the top of the water chain because the Continental Divide, the main series of mountain ridges in North America, forms a watershed that separates the rivers flowing east into the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico from those flowing west into the Pacific Ocean. The last three pictures are our friends Nancy and Ray Broome with their Golden Retrievers, Brandy and Marley, and Geri is the one scraping the ice off the windshield. Cheers, Kent