Marc's Latest Project

Marc found this old mini BMX bike in someone's trash and decided it needed a new home. He loves working on bikes, so he decided to rebuild the bike for our nephew Lucas. He tore it apart and is getting all the spray paint off of the wheels and small parts and will take it to the powdercoaters to get it painted Lucas' favorite color. We got new wheels, hand grips and a blue bell for it today. Hopefully it will all be done by November when we visit them. 

Harvest Time

Okay so maybe I had the zoom on a bit for this radish, but the flavor was as big as the picture. I didn't even think I liked radish's, but this was awesome. I planted them a bit too close together and am only getting a few to look this good, next year I will know better and have a huge radish garden.

Cooper Cabin 8/9/08

The Cooper Cabin is a cabin in the Gore Range near our friends Kristi and Wes' house. Marc has been to it numerous times but this was my first time (after 2 unsuccessful tries). Not far of a hike about an hour and a half, but not a very well marked trail. 
This is some old newspaper on the walls inside the cabin dated 1919!! I think you can double click on the photo to enlarge it and see an old pepsodent ad.
The outhouse.
Trees groing on top of the cabin.
Loki trying to climb the walls of a decaying cabin.
This field of flowers was a beautiful light blue, not showing up too well on the picture.
Some Indian Paintbrush.


Front door of the cabin. People still use the cabin to camp out in. Marc has tried to get me there for the winter. Now that I have seen it in the summer, I don't think I will be staying there with snow all over the place.

Snow in August

Marc and I went to Denver today to do our big box shopping and had an unfortunate surprise on Loveland Pass. 

This will of course all melt by Monday, but what a bummer, not quite ready for winter. We had our last snow fall on June 8th. Not much of a summer. Hope we get a great Indian Summer.

Garden

None of the transplants made it very well. In the front I have all the lettuce, spinach and some cilantro. Back right is experimental and left side is radishes beets and peas.
spinach and lettuce

This is the experimental box. I have nine things growing in a 5 x 5 box. Well 1 area is completely dead-the cucumbers didn't make it, 2 sections of squash that is barely surviving. Broccoli in the back left is doing good, but no veggie yet. Tomatoes, beets and cilantro are the others. The wood square along the fence was the cover Marc made to keep Sam out of them when they were seedlings. He thought it was his litter box-yuck! The line on the back of the fence is our new electric cat fence to keep Sam in our area. He has a problem with one of the neighbor cats, but more on that to come later with video of  Sam training with a shock collar!!These are sugar snap peas on the left and radishes in the middle and beets on the right.I think I need to give the radishes a bit more room next year.

Mt. Sopris Hike 7-27-08

Mt. Sopris, elevation 12,953 not quite 13,000. This mountain is located in the Roaring Fork Valley, which is on your way to Aspen. It's a stunning mountain that you can see from Glenwood Springs and I-70.
Marc and I started our hike at a little over 8,000ft elevation so it was a pretty steep climb in 6 mi. We summited the middle peak in this photo. It is officially East Sopris and West Sopris is the one to the right. There was only a 1/2 mi. seperating them, but it looked alot further when we got to the top. The peak to the most right is where we were headed, East Sopris.
It was really steep here, I needed my hands for balance. And just to make it a little more scary, the rocks were super loose.I was cooked here, we climbed up the left ridge of the peak behind me. That was the first of three false summits.The view to the south/west. The picture is a little foggy looking, but it was the most beautiful view I have seen. Red cliffs with bright(verdant) green hillsides and blue skies with big puffy white clouds.View to the north. Hwy 133 to Redstone below. Marc and Loki at the top. People build shelters on the top so that's why it looks like we are sitting in a hole. The stack of rocks in the background is a cairn it marks the trail and the top. Loki can find anywhere to lay down, even on the sharpest of rocks.The boys getting a drink of water using their christmas present from Jen and Rich. Works great!Thomas Lakes about 2 miles up.

Steamboat Ride 7-19-2008

Marc and I and a few of our friends planned to ride our bikes from Rabbit Ears pass to Steamboat ski area. After a wrong turn somewhere we ended up on Buffalo Pass which was a bit north than we were expecting. We were able to find a nice single track for the ride down, after riding thru snow, mud and over and around downed trees and a few river crossings on the way up. Our friend Kurt carrying his bike over the logs is somewhere on this page as well as his bike in the snow.
Here's me pulling up the rear as usual!

This area was a huge mosquito den! I think I only got 10 or so bites on this 5 hour bike ride.
Everybody waiting for me-again! I'm really not that bad of a rider, we were just out with the "A" team that day.