From Bear Lake to Grand Lake...

Phew, it was a long day.

Was up late finishing moving/unpacking everything, and spent my first night in my new apartment, in my log bed, listening to crickets and coyotes... I did get ahold of the group that was hiking today, and the plan was to meet at 5:30 am in Estes. This means that I was up at 4 am trying to find my hiking gear in all the stuff strewn about the apartment.

We hit the trailhead around 6:30 am and when all was said and done, we reached Grand Lake at around 4 pm. 17.2 miles. It was a long day but it was FANTASTIC! I'll do an official "Trail Log" when I post my photos; I'm just too dog tired right now. I feel great except my knee is a little sore for some strange reason.??

Now I'm winding down, listening to the people at RockyGrass Festival cheering from down the canyon. It looks like fun, maybe next year? I did go downtown Lyons yesterday night and sat outside, eating great pizza and making my cell phone calls. I think I'm going to like living down here. :)

In unrelated news, Tim is still on that fire and won't be back until Saturday at the earliest, perhaps as late as the 8th. We went over our schedules, and it looks like between his trail crew overnight trips, both our friends' weddings, and various other random 'stuff', we aren't going to be in town at the same time much! So it looks like I will be accompanying him to Portland, OR for his friend's wedding in two weekends! I'm excited and a little nervous to be meeting them and dancing and all that stuff, but it should be fun! I've never been to Portland so it will be a mini vacation. This weekend, I am really going to Montana this time. Really. Unless something else comes up, again! ;)

Definitely time to crash. Photos from our super-hike coming up soon!