Instead I'll write about some of the scenery that we have for hiking.
The Rocky Mountains are roughly 100 miles from here. The Rockies are a range on the eastern side of the mountains of north America. The Rockies are not a giant range of mountains. Very few of them are more than 10000 feet. However they are beautiful with colors shapes and snow.
I was fortunate enough to go on some back packing trips with friends. Very few areas actually required climbing. Mostly we followed trails until we reached a peak.
In one area we drove by what we thought was a peak. We looked at it for several years and finally said lets walk up there. We got up only to find that it was the end of a ridge. We had to scramble up the las 300 ft of altitude. The ridge carried on for several miles. A gust of wind caused us to flatten out on the ridge as it was very narrow and we could have been blown off.
So we took the kids up Whirlpool Point Ridge many times. This was our name for the area.
So here we are in the beautiful Rockies looking at where we were going.
