Hello all!
In order to keep everyone as updated as possible, we have decided to create a travel journal.
(Ok, ok. It's a BLOG. But, we bought the domain so we're calling it a journal gosh darn it!)
Our first hike attempt was Diamond Lake, in Nederland. It's about 30 minutes past Boulder, & what a beautiful drive it was. Finally taking the guys through the actual mountains instead of just staring longingly at the mountain range on the skyline.
Driving up to the trail head was...terrifying. Now I know Colorado is all about dirt roads, but ooooh my goodness did we get a crash course on them. Winding up the mountain to the trail head there's the road you're driving on, and then a cliff. Oh, it's also a 2 lane road by SOME miracle. So you have to smash your car so far towards the rock wall to get around each other. Let's just say it took us a while to get up. Once up, it was beautiful. & it was cold, which made me SO happy. The sky was overcast with a thunderstorm, but we decided to keep going. After about 15 minutes of hiking though, we unfortunately had to turn around. The path we were on was a flood trap with streams and such running under it and alongside. Not to mention the thought of driving down the mountain on that non-road in a downpour was a bit scary.
I wasn't going to write a post about this trip, since we barely got into it, but it still counts as the first time we were able to get out into the mountains & get a taste of what Colorado has to offer. Here are some photos Josh & I were able to snag.
One of the memorable moments for me was there was this noise, almost like wind gushing against your ear when it's clogged, and we couldn't identify it until we went further up the mountain. Then BAM through the trees, there's this absolutely beautiful waterfall across the way on the opposing mountain. The sound we were hearing was water crashing hundreds of feet down.
In that moment, I realized I want to chase some waterfalls. I cannot stick to the rivers & the lakes I am used to.
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