Friday, September 25, 2015

Hiking Home Base

Our home base in Fairfiled, CO while we hiked was here at A Riverside Inn Hotel.
Restaurants of Fairfield - 
down the road at the local bowling alley/restaurant


 Right next door -
we did not sample the ice cream.

One afternoon we walked to downtown Fairfield.
There were a lot of touristy shops, 
but they did have a nice park with a scenic overlook to the river.
 Our rental car after days of driving to trail heads.
The view on our last morning in Fairfield, CO.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Vacation - Hiking Day 3

We hiked part of the Colorado trail on our last day in Fairfiled, CO.

We saw a lot of tepees .  .  .

The trail is almost 500 miles long, so a lot of people camp along the trail.

Beautiful panoramic scenery!!



 Typical trail  .  .  . 


Wild flowers .  .  .


and wild potentilla!
We paid money for this stuff in Indiana!

 Blue butterfly .  .  .

Stream jump!


More scenery and water break.




Other hikers!



 Our last day of hiking was the best!
It was warm & sunny & the trail was easy (except for the stream jump).
This trip definitely surpasses our experience of 30 years ago!