 Sky, Clouds, Ridge | I decided I wanted to hike up the Scar again | Heading up to the trail |
 Big Rock | Mostly as training for hiking up Pikes Peak hopefully around the end of July | The trail starts here |
 A Magestic Rock | But also because it can have some great views | Trail |
 Rock Erosion | And I've heard about GeoCachingWhere you look for hidden caches by their GPS coordinates | Trail past a cavern |
 Tree hanging into the sky | So this past Wednesday, after work, I packed up my camera, my CamelBak and my GPS and headed for Glen Eyrie | Rock Formations |
 View towards Cheyenne Mountain | I also packed the print out of a GeoCache on the Scar | Road and Sky |
 Going up the Road - Hot and Sunny | There were some extra clues on the web page for the Cache on the Scar - Most sounded familiar | Sky, Clouds, Hidden Sun |
 Old Road up the Scar | On my way up, checking the GPS, I thought the Cache was down this way (->) and took about 20 minutes to realize I was not headed the right way. So I decided to make it to the top of the scar, and try to locate the Cache on my way back down | Steep way down Queen's Canyon |
 Rocky Structures | Surprised the group of Sheep | |
 Bighorn Sheep Looking down Garden of the Gods Road | I found a couple of groups of Big Horn Sheep - I suprised them a couple of times - I even managed to split a group apart temporarily | More Bighorn Sheep |
 View from the top of the Scar Looking North | It took me longer than I expected to get to the top of the Scar - but it was as exilerating as ever to make it to the top | Made it to the top of the Peak |
 Self Portrait | (<-) A cheesy self-portrait at the top, looking NorthEast from the top of the Scar (->) and an interesting shadowy picture of Pikes Peak | Pikes Peak |
 Down the back edge of the Scar | Heading back down - to the right is the valley where Dorothy Falls is located. I was sad to read that they are limiting access to the area on weekends - but it does get busy | Queen's Canyon - Dorothy Falls is down there |
 Garden of the Gods doesn't look so big from here | The views are pretty spectacular from the Scar - I filled up my 256M card with 182 pictures (says it should hold 175 when empty) And before I got all the way down, I swapped to my 340M micro drive card - to finish the day with 216 pictures | View along the edge of the Scar |
 A Balancing Rock | Another Bighorn | |
 That Geocache has to be here somewhere | On the way down I looked for the GeoCache - my GPS got me within less than 10 feet! It still took a bit of searching - The cache was a small tupper-type-ware in a ziplog back, pretty well hidden. But I found it! I added my name to the log and left a nickle with my handle 'KAH731' and the symbol of a LED on the back of the Nickle. I think I'll have to do more GeoCaching! | Bench |
 Pretty Wildflowers | Interesting Weed |
So Christmas day Sunday, but we don't do Christmas. And a day off Monday. No real plans until Sunday evening for Channukah. My toe finally feels well enough for a hike. Blodgett Peak has been calling to me for months - especially since I learned there was a geocache on top. So I get up a bit early - early for a day off from work - and head out for a hike. I don't know how far I'll get - but I want to at least get to the top of Blodgett Peak. I've got about 8 geocaches I can try for, depending on how I do. A couple are up in Pike National Forrest, past Blodgett Peak. It is slower going than I expected. I spend more time than I wanted looking for the first 4 geocaches - I only found 2 of them. The trail is Icy and muddy. It is not a great trail - it is not well prepared like the trail going up Pikes Peak. It is very easy to lose the trail - subtle paths seem to go off in many directions. In many places, the trail seems to go up very steep, loose gravel. Step
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