Monthly Archives: July 2012

Eating at Fargo’s Pizza is a Colorado Springs tradition in my family. I think it goes back to childhood visits; I know I have a photograph from 1987. The pizza’s not super-awesome, but I love the old-timey pizza parlor, with … Continue reading →

After checking out of camp late this morning, we continued south on Colorado 67 to Cripple Creek to ride the Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad. Standard railroads have 4′ 8 1/2″ between the inner edges of the rails; … Continue reading →

Since coming here every summer of high school, I’ve been aware of the locked shaft into the hillside behind the campfire area, but I’ve never gone into it. It’s the entrance to a mine that never produced gold, and the … Continue reading →

Monkey Rock is an outcropping above camp, a comfortable walk cut into the hillside and not precipitous. But parts are granite faces with loose gravel and a slip would result in a long, scrapey slide. So our walk up it … Continue reading →

This morning I walked up Raspberry Mountain alone. The second generation went to walk the Crags — longer but shallower — and the fourth generation said, hey, if we run the whole way and go straight up instead of taking … Continue reading →

View Larger Map After leaving the Da Vinci exhibit, we took US-285 and CO-67 from Denver into Woodland Park from the north, then on to camp for the reunion. North Fork, Colorado Forest Fire Area There’s been a lot of … Continue reading →

This morning we went downtown to Denver’s Pavilions mall to see the Da Vinci Machines Exhibition. While waiting for the exhibit to open, we were serenaded by this pianist — quite talented — outdoors on the 16th Avenue Mall. The … Continue reading →

After a short time on Flagstaff Road above Boulder, I determined that the road continued far enough to intersect Colorado Highway 72, which would bring us into northwestern Denver in the vicinity of our Westminster hotel. So with very little … Continue reading →

View Larger Map We arrived in Boulder from the west early in the afternoon without specific plans other than to get to our hotel in Westminster later in the day. Dad thought he remembered a driving trail to the Flatirons, … Continue reading →

View Larger Map Yesterday we left Estes Park for Boulder, heading out of town on scenic Highway 7 toward Nederland. The route paid off quickly, with the road climbing above Estes and cutting through rocks it couldn’t as easily go … Continue reading →