After a late night eating and drinking Jayme and I decided to do something healthy and climb up a mountain at Chautauqa Park, (follow this link for our hike info) http://www.protrails.com/trail.php?trailID=69 Did I say healthy? I meant insane.
After speaking to Ranger Smith (actually one of his elderly female assistants and we never did see Yogi or BooBoo) we headed out onto the trail. Tip; When Ranger Smith or assoc. tell you its an easy gentle trail DON'T LISTEN they're just trying to show you that your an out of towner who's unfit, overweight and drinks too much!!
The trail soon turned from a nice cinder path to a mountain . . . like a real mountain, big wet rocks waterfalls and stuff. It's also very disconcerting when you turn round red faced and find that there is a fifty year old dad with his daughter strapped to his back overtaking you while you're doubled up dying of exhaustion!
It was all worth it in the end and we got to the top to see the Grand Arch with some amazing views as you can see! We could see Denver which was 40+ miles away!
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