Mike who hikes

Today I went to Golden gate canyon S P and did a 9.4 mile (15 km) trail run. Blue sky, green evergreens, gold Aspen with white trunks and shades of brown on the trail made for a colorful but exhausting morning run.
This was my longest trail run yet and we'll see how the legs are in the morning 😬

Yesterday's hike up to Rodger's pass lake and heart lake was gorgeous. Aspens were popping, lots of snow and ice and mud, but no mooses... 🫎

Hike out of Estes Park to Sprague lake with early fall colors

Today's traffic jam while coming down the trail from Mt democrat. Momma mountain goat and her 2 kids. I went wide around them but momma kept an eye on me.

Nice morning for a trail run in Golden gate canyon State Park. It did not disappoint. Fabulous and so much fun, especially running down the west side of mule deer trail.
I'm planning on coming back when the aspens change, that should be even more awesome...

Wow...

“Life is like a race — you don’t stop when you’re tired, you stop when you’ve given it everything.”

Robert Marchand
105 year old cyclist

Downtown Westminster is a joke. No one wants to pay to park in Westy of all places. Few people from outside the apartments there will visit because they don't want to pay to park. That's the main reason tattered cover struggled & left & until things change it will never be a place anyone visits.

Sorry, Not Sorry.. 🔥

Mt meeker and longs peak

Twin sisters peaks

Mount Chapin, Mount chiquita and ypsilon mtn

Looking towards Estes Park

Sometimes it's not how high the mountain you climb is but how great the views are. Today was my first time hiking up Lily mountain by Estes park and it's got some nice views.

When the world kicks you in the balls, pack your gear and go climb a mountain... I did bald mountain 13,630ish near Breckenridge Colo. Lots of false summits, loose rock, a few mountain goats and no people. There was a spot about 1/4 mile from the summit that had me questioning my life choices though

It's the middle of May in Colorado and I'm eating home grown tomatoes from the greenhouse. Yum 🍅

I went cat fishing and caught one 😁 good way to run off that sphinx energy
#crazycat #sphinx

I've got flowers just waiting to be put out, just need the weather to cooperate. Also... My greenhouse tomatoes should be ready to eat in a couple weeks

All I need to do is whistle and the chickens come running

I got new trail runners. I go fast, watch me... 😁

Me at the arch

I hiked up to Royal Arch above Boulder this afternoon (shown on the map on my arm 😁).
A bunch of ice on the trail and almost everyone was ill prepared for it, but not me.
That's 3 hikes in 6 days. I keep this up and I'll be unstoppable 😁😁. Definitely feeling strong for this early in the year.

I went for a trail run this afternoon up Mt sanitas. 4.5 miles rt and I got back right before a rain storm hit. #oldguyrunning

I'll call this "Moon over the flatirons". I took this on my way to work this morning. The picture doesn't do the scene justice

It's the middle of winter and my tomato plants are a foot high. I'm about to transplant them into their final pots and am looking forward to eating tomatoes in a couple months
#greenhouse
#tomatoes
#wintergardening

There might be snow on the ground but it's a nice 65 degrees in the greenhouse with lots of flowers still going strong.

Thanks to the road crews in Broomfield clearing the roads from the snow storm this morning, even a Nazi cyber truck was able to make it to Safeway...

Walter sitting in his heated pad and wearing his sweater

The cold weather has not amused Walter.

It was a nice morning for a hike up green mtn before the bitter cold sets in this weekend. Lots of snow and ice on the trail but my spikes helped on the downhill sections.
Hiking is my favorite way to clear my head and relax.

Chicks 🐓 love me. I've trained them to come to me when I whistle 😙

Hey Dad, it's dinner time...

We did a hike around the flatiron vista park south of Boulder. No flatirons in the vista today, just lots of fog and cold 🥶

Trail

Weather during the hike. 10 degrees and -14 wind-chill

Caribou ranch recording studio

Today my wife and I did our almost annual new year's day winter hike at caribou ranch near Nederland Colorado. Cold and windy but we were prepared and had a good day out.

Succulents are super happy in the greenhouse and even have a petunia growing from seed along with them 😁

Princess Pickle

Here's my Christmas "Pickle" 🥒
She's a 3 year old charcoal lab and kind of a big dill 😀

This made me laugh way more than it should have...
#dadjoke