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LBM - 02.08
(Feb '08)
Mom and Dad McKelvie flew in for some sweet snowboarding... I mean snow viewing. The weather was really quite beautiful, and we had a great time eating at Terra Bistro for my birthday. We also rode up ...
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Piney Lake to Marugg Creek
(Aug 04 '07)
This was the first difficult hike Sara and I did. It was a challenging hike that was similar to going up stairs for 3 miles and down stairs for 3 miles! What fun!! It was a really pretty area and the ...
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Booth Falls Part 2
(Sep 01 '07)
I wanted to do this hike again- to test how much better I have become at dealing with the altitude- the hike was still not easy- mostly because it is almost totally exposed and the sun just beats down ...
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Whitney Lake
(Aug 11 '07)
Whitney Lake is beautiful, it is a harder hike but the reward is great. At the end there are huge flat rocks on the water's edge that Sara and I laid on and enjoyed the sun. Kavi swam and Parker kind ...
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Happy New Year!
(Dec 31 '07)
Not much to say other than one more year has passed and one more is beginning. Can't wait to see what it holds.
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Booth Falls- Jen's 1st real hike
(Jun 30 '07)
Booth Falls sounded like a fantastic idea for me and a friend and coworker Sara to do on a sunny Saturday. We packed the dogs and some H20 and headed to East Vail. Little did we know that we would be ...
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Cross Creek
(Aug 18 '07)
Seth and I were misled by the Vail Hiker and could not find the trail head we wanted to find- so we started on a 14er ( summit at 14000) just for fun - but then it began to rain so we headed back and ...
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Corral Creek
(Jul 28 '07)
This hike was a pretty good workout- there were no steep climbs but there were some very long uphill sections. The entire hike is 8 miles and climbs 1,640 feet, but because of our soaking wet feet and ...
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Fall Colors 2008
(Sep '08)
This fall is particularly beautiful, I know that it was not this beautiful for this long last fall. The leaves are stunning and the weather has been quite mild.
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LBM - 09.08
(Sep '08)
My parents finially got to come out to see our very first home. It was a really great trip because they stayed with us, I took a bunch of time off work, they were here for 10 days, the weather was ...
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Hiking Mt. Thomas
(Sep 15 '07)
This was the best hike ever. Jen and I along with Parker and Kavi hiked to the summit of Mt. Thomas. Beautiful doesnt describe it. The pictures don't do it justice. I only hope to describe it well ...
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Mt. Rushmore
(Jul 15 '07)
I took the audio tour of Mt. Rushmore. It is a two hour audio of how the mountain was carved, the geography, the history, and on and on. It is very spectacular and as one might expect ...
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our backyard!
(Jun '07)
Welcome to our backyard- literally! We walk out of the condo and step onto a bike path that runs for miles- most of it runs along Eagle River. We routinely take long walks and meet other dogs and wave ...
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