Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Beautiful Crested Butte Colorado

Last Monday Nick, Luke and I headed out on our family vacation to Crested Butte. We picked Crested Butte because of its beautiful wildflowers and scenic mountains. It took 5 hours to get there with a lunch stop on the way and Luke did great! We stayed at the Elk Mountain Lodge which was a block away from the main street. The first day we did a more local hike off by the ski mountain and I was amazed at all the wildflowers that were there!

Then we enjoyed the free concert in the park where Luke danced to reggae music. The next day, Nick planned an adventure up to the Maroon Bells mountains and to get there we had to go on a 4WD road. It was not bad until Nick jumped out and had to check out a river (ok.. more like a stream) crossing before we made it to the trailhead. This hike was the most beautiful hike I have ever been on in my life because of the red colored mountains, river next to the trail and the abundance of wildflowers of all kinds. I wish that I had a better camera to capture the scenery.




At the end of the hike, Luke was so tired that he fell quickly to sleep while Nick carried him back to the car. What a great vacation!
P.S. the three of us were never as popular as we were on that hike up West Maroon. At least 3 people took picture of us with their own camera and Nick even got the "dad of the year" designation from another hiker.

2 comments:

Paula said...

That sounds like a beautiful vacation, Kim and Nick! The scenery sounds SPRCTACULAR!! That sounds like a place we will have to visit on one of our Colorado jaunts.
You are such a CUTE family...no wonder so many picture takers! :)
Hugs to all, Paula

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