A sighting of a baby moose, a beautiful day, and a great hike with the family!

I was excited to see this moose driving to our hike.  Luckily, we saw it leaving too because none of my pictures even resembled a moose until later in the day.  This is a better picture but not by much!

The hike was quite a ways uphill and we never actually made it to Lookout Mountain (that was never the plan with the two small kiddo's along). 

 

 We passes this mining area on the way up.

 We turned around at a split off for multiple trails and had lunch there.

 Overall, it was a great hike for the Thanksgiving day weekend with the family.

Hike: Lookout Mountain (Larimer County)
Trails Used: 

Distance: 5.6 miles

Difficulty: Moderate
Overall average: 1.3 mph
Overall Time: 4 hrs, 13 mins
Total Ascent: 2382 ft.

A visit to the High Park Fire burn area

 

We got invited up to some peoples cabin this weekend that they had built by hand.  It was located up Rist Canyon down Old Flowers Road.  We hadn't been in this area since the big fire this summer so it was interesting to see how the flames moved and left some areas virtually untouched.  Luckily, their cabin was slurried otherwise it would no longer be here.  

 

We took a nice walk through the surrounding meadow (recovered) and the burnt forest area (this will take a long time to recover).  The trees were blistered and spotted and cast cool shadows on the forest floor.

 

The jeep even got to do some 'real' jeep work.  The picture doesn't look like much but the kid's were having a blast in the back seat!