To the Estes Festiveness

To continue documenting my weekend adventures of late playing the role of "me-sooooo-outdoorsy" woman, I went camping a few weeks ago near Estes park with many Denver/Boulder friends. Ashley was our fearless and super fabulously, super-organized, organizer. Though Annie and I arrived and met Ashley in the pouring rain where we ate entirely too many Cool Ranch Doritos in the car for an hour, the rain did subside and we had something like a 14 person and 1 dog camping/hiking crew.

I don't own my own camp stove, but luckily, John does, so we were able to fire up some meannnn cheese tortellini and sauce, as shown in the picture below. We are also displaying our talent for combining pink, red, and orange and making that color combination WORK!


Though it rained a lot that night, the next day was pretty nice and cool for our hike on a trail that Ashley had helped create a few years back. Jayden and Senor both made it to the summit. The last picture is from the bottom of the hike and shows the mountainy mountain we climbed. Good times! Beer was had, of course, after this hike as well. Then it was back to Denver to become urban again, and take a shower. After all, there's only so much outdoorsy in me.