We drove to Leadville this weekend to knock out another fourteener with our friends Joe and Stephanie. Stephanie is getting into flower identification, and I love taking photos of them, so we both had a lovely time enjoying all of the wild flowers. Mt. Sherman was quite chill and we saw various children on our way up and down the mountain. Even though we started later in the morning than normally for a fourteener, we were back in town for lunch. We ate at an Italian restaurant with an amazing pesto pasta and cute bathrooms that had language learning CD going on in the background.
We drove on with them to the Vail Valley and on Sunday, Stephanie, Darren and I climbed 20 very short pitches up a route called Royal Flush near Silverthorne
We found wild berries mid-climb
At the summit with Lake Dillon in the background
After descending, we browsed an art fair and ate at the wonderful Sunshine Cafe in Silverthorne where Stephanie and Joe had bought their wedding cake.
On our way home we saw the best rainbow I've ever seen...and it was a double rainbow! People were stopping all over the place to take photos. It was that good.
