I do love living in Colorado, particularly when the weather looks like this the day after Thanksgiving:
There's really only one thing to do in that case, and that's hit the trails! We met the Zwyers at Mt. Falcon, a lovely easy hike near Red Rocks Ampitheatre.
I had downloaded the geocaches in the area but my app showed the first one was 0.4 miles up the trail - so I was really confused when David headed off on a spur trail 400 feet from the parking lot, saying "This looks like a good spot for a geocache!" I was even more confused when he reached into an evergreen tree and pulled out a geocache container. Obviously my app was not properly calibrated...
We signed the log and the boys grabbed some treasures and then it was time to start hiking.
We had to stop and rest a few times, but it helps that David and Andrew have boundless energy and Ryan and Jack wanted to keep up with them as the leaders.
We spotted some deer near the trail - there is a large buck right in the middle of this picture (in the gap between the trees).
There he is!
We eventually made it to the next geocache where we stopped for a snack and the boys did their best mountain goat impressions.
Finally Andrew and Jack began to slow down so we decided to turn around while we still had energy to get back to the parking lot. Jack got a ride from Sam most of the way down.
We headed to Red Rocks Grill in Morrison for green chili cheese fries, burgers, Mexican platters and beer, which tasted so good after our adventure. Poor Jack was so tired, he was nodding off into his quesadilla, but I think everyone had a great time.
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