Picnic at Chicago Creek

Today we decided to take a picnic up to Chicago Creek on Mount Evans with Grandma and Grandpa Fleming and Aunt Sarah. It has been raining a lot lately so the creek was more like a raging river (very rare for this late in the summer in Colorado!). It was crisp and cool in the trees and everyone enjoyed the fresh air.

Again, they chose to dress alike - I had nothing to do with it!

The boys were excited to discover a mushroom growing between the boards of the picnic table.

Ryan was fascinated by the tree that had been upended when the creek eventually eroded the dirt around its roots. It was a pretty shallow root system for such a tall tree!

Of course we had to find treasure while we were out adventuring - this geocache was tucked into a rock crevice on the side of a steep slope.Jack and the Flemings stayed up on the trail while Ryan and Sam and I went discovering.

We drove on farther up the mountain - it was the last day you could drive up to the top of Mount Evans so the line of cars turning off was long and it was naptime, so we just headed home over the pass.  Our little mountaineers pooped out quickly and slept all the way home.