Today we awoke to sunshine and warmer weather but because it usually rains in the afternoon we decided to get an early start on our hiking. We have a favorite hike here, the Emerald Lake
Trail. It takes you to four alpine lakes each one higher in alleviation ending at Emerald. The first two lakes were a piece of cake than we hit the snow. The trail was completely covered and in some areas up to around five feet, Richard was smart enough to bring along his hiking poles so we each had one pole which really helped. The snow was packed and the trail wasn't to hard to follow and as you see by our pictures very worth the hard hike in. Emerald Lake was completely frozen over and the wind was blowing so hard it created quite a wind chill, like a cold Minnesota day in January, yikes!
In the afternoon we took a ride in to Estes Park to do the rest of the shopping for our granddaughters. The town is very touristy but very pretty. We will be at the park for at least another day.
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| Emerald Lake Trail |
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| Emerald Lake Trail |
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| Dream Lake |
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| Dream Lake |
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| Dream Lake |
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| On The way To Emerald Lake |
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| Emerald Trail |
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| Emerald Trail |
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| View From our Campsite |
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| RMNP Campsite |
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| Relaxing after a hard day |
