Rocky Mountain High

We drove through two mountain passes before arriving at Morraine Campground in Rocky Mtn. NP. The sky looked threatening once we arrived at the tundra area of the park. We wondered if we'd get our trailer unhooked and safely in the campground before a blizzard!

A lot of snow has yet to melt in the park. We hiked over a lot of it.

We hiked on Thursday, June 18 to 3 beautiful mountain lakes. This was taken at Dream Lake.

We drove over to the Sheep Lake area to watch for the big horn sheep to come down. We did spot them up on the rocks through the binoculars.

This little critter climbed right up on Randy's backpack
when we were sitting down enjoying the scenery! They know where the eats are.

We enjoyed the hike to Alberta Falls on Friday morning, June 19.

at Bierstadt Lake

But we did NOT enjoy the hike to or from Bierstadt Lake. Mosquitoes and huge rocks/boulders infested the trail and made it seem a lot longer than they said it was - about 4 miles.

Randy's new franchise in Estes Park

I had to start my business up too!

These beautiful alpine forget-me-nots were up in the tundra area.

Both of these pictures were taken at Sprague Lake Friday evening after John & Kerrie arrived.

Sabbath breakfast at our campsite

John & Kerrie on mushroom rock.

Sunday morning ready to leave the park and head back east. We ended up stopping sooner than we'd hoped the first night - in Siebold, CO. Then we headed out across I-70 on Monday and due to extreme temperatures, over 100 degrees, our van overheated so we stopped sooner than we'd planned. . .

Our last campground of the trip was in Topeka, KS. That left us one 15-hour day on home Tuesday, June 23. We got up at 4 a.m. to beat the heat and got a 4:25 a.m. start. It was already 88 degrees when we got to Kansas City at 7:15 a.m. We're already missing the dry, cool weather we enjoyed for the 3 weeks on this very memorable trip.