We got up bright and early this morning to go Ice Climbing. Whitney came at 7 and we left her with the kids. THANKS WHIT! We drove up past Sundance Ski Resort and Aspen Grove, to the trail head parking lot for Mt. Timponogos. The parking lot was full of tents of boy scouts who spent the night--probably passing off some winter camping merit badge. It was hillarious. They had built fires right in the parking lot and were cooking and keeping warm. So funny.
We gathered up our stuff and started stomping through the snow up to "the second waterfall". At first, the trail was packed down by snowmobiles, so it was easy going. Then it got HARD. We followed some moose tracks, stepped up over poop and pee and unfortuantly, finally made it out into the fresher snow that hadn't been packed down. We both sank up to our knees with each step. We had a deadline and had to be back home by 12:30. At the rate we were going and with conditions not too favorable, we turned around and counted it as a nice workout.
On the drive home, we drove past a moose, walking through the forest at the side of the road, near Sundance. Amazing and exciting to see!!
While driving home, talking about what could have been, we spotted close to 50 ice climbers doing Bridal Vail Falls, so we stopped to watch them. We didn't have enough time to join them, but it was great to watch!! Further down the canyon, we stopped at Canyon View Park. We had heard about a water fall coming from the Pipeline, so we stopped to have a look. Thats when we noticed 4 guys ready with all their ice picks. We stopped to talk to them. Turns out, its sidewalk the whole way to the waterfall, so its VERY VERY easy to get to (no sinking to our knees!!). We got their contact info and planned to meet them again. Luckily, Whitney is so SWEET that she is gonna come on Monday at 7am to watch the kids, so we can go try this new waterfall. YEA!!!!
So, even though we didn't get to climb today, we had a great morning. Now I'm gonna take the kids to Kangaroo Zoo!!!
-Super Angie
(PHOTO is the waterfall at Aspen Grove we were trying to get to.)
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Put up the one picture of this from my phone, in my blog. Check it out.
sounds like a good day.
WOW...I haven't been blog hoppin' as much as I would like to...so I had some catchin' up to do on yours! You live an exciting life super angie! I can't believe all the climbing you do...it's awesome...can't believe you are going to climb Ranier...so cool! I can't wait to hear about it! :) The kids are adorable as always and you look fab too!
luv ya!
climbing a waterfall ... that's one i haven't heard! you are hard core! good luck monday! you really are SUPER!
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