Running the Rainbow

We camped in in Leadville in Molly Brown campground in 2017. I remember loving how many trees there are. Connor started a game board in the dirt and each kid had their own village. This year, we camped at Silver Dollar Campground. This site definitely makes the top 5 of best campsites we have camped at.  It was very spacious and we set up 3 tents. Connor was in one, the girls in the other, and me and Lola in the other. Unfortunately, it was raining when we arrived.  So, we set up our tents quickly and ate some lunch.  Then, we went to the town of Leadville and looked in a few of their shops.  When the Avs game was about to start, we sat down at Casa Sanchez and ordered dinner, dessert, and Horchata.  We had so much fun watching the Avs win.  When we got back to our site, we were exhausted and went to bed. Leadville gets pretty cold at night.  Thankfully, when the sun came out in the morning, it was warm.  We ate ...

 Just a photo dump of our early summer with the kids involved in the Castle Rock Cruisers and Crankers swim and mountain-bike teams.

I went to Mt Evans a couple of years ago and saw that the campgrounds at the base of the 14er looked really nice.  They are woodsy and near a creek with lots of shade.  After some research, I found that the West Chicago Lakes Campground was the best.  Since this was our first camping trip for the summer and the campground didn’t have water, I decided to only stay for 1 night.  I wanted to go Paddleboarding, but Echo lake does not allow Paddleboarding or swimming so we went for a hike.  We hiked from Echo Lake to Idaho Springs Reservoir and back.  It was about a 4.5 mile hike and pretty strenuous. It was a beautiful day and very hot in town.  However, it was cooler in the mountains.  It really was the perfect weather. When I am hiking, I see so many poop bags lying on the trail so I thought it was interesting that someone wrote a note on it. Chicago creek was very cold.  It was so cold that it stung my feet....