Trails 2 Travel

 This past saturday I hiked Mt timp with my friend Makay and his roomates for one of their birthdays. We started just before 4 in anticipation of watching the sunset from the saddle. It was pretty humid starting off so we got eaten by mosquitos!  I love the Timponoke trail. Easily one of my favorite hikes with all of its little creeks and waterfalls. It's so diverse and beautiful! :]  Oh and let's not forget about the wild flower meadows! They're even more stunning in august but seriously they were beautiful this time as well!  Unfortunately a storm started rolling in big time while we were still on the mountain.... So we got lots of lightning, thunder, hail, and rain. Which was almost more adventure like. I loved hearing the thunder shake the valley. Such a cool feeling, even if I was pretty terrified of getting struck by lightning. haha  All I wanted to do was sit at the top cause we pushed it so much to get up there. Well I got to sit for 5 m...

 It's been quite the eventful couple of weeks. Last week I decided to try a hike I'd only gone on once on a date... bad idea. When I finally found the trailhead I started it backwards from what I remembered which led to all sorts of other problems. To the left: for some reason Monty likes to ride up on the top of the back seat. He often falls into the trunk and has to hop back up front but it always makes me laugh to see him balancing up there.  We started the trail and at the beginning there's all these really nice creek crossings. Monty was already tiring out and Ollie I could tell was really hot so I set them lose in the stream for a little. They really loved it, but then I ended up carrying Monty so I was covered in wet dirt the rest of the trip. haha  Ollie I let off the leash so I could handle monty better. I figured Ollie is smart enough to get off the trail if a mountain biker came by where as monty... not so much. haha I love this trail!  ...