Gael Glen Farm On The Road

We had no further issues with the wind this morning and made it to the Mammoth Site for opening. This was lucky since three buses of excited school children arrived for a field trip a half hour later (cue screaming). The Mammoth Site is one of the largest ice age fossil finds in the USA. The now extinct animals here - the Colombian mammoth, the woolly mammoth, the giant short...

We started Week 4 of our great adventure off with a leisurely wake up and breakfast at our campsite. To get our blood flowing and work off any stiffness after yesterday’s hike, we did an easy walk (though here was still a bit of an incline) around Beaver Lake and Nymph Lake. The quote of the day was from Seamus, “Why does every hike here go up?!”

We tried our hand at night photography last night in preparation for the many dark sky parks we will be visiting on the trip. Even with the light pollution from Denver, we got a few nice shots of the Milky Way. It was really cold out - about 5 degrees C. I bundled up to venture outside for the photos; meanwhile we ran a space heater in the trailer to keep all the sleepers toa...

An early morning rooster crowed our wake up call after a second night at Lone Duck Campground at the base of Pike’s Peak. Our early start meant that we had time today to do something that everyone would like.

Our first stop upon arriving in Denver was a visit to Hammond’s Candy Company for a factory tour. This is the largest handmade candy company in the USA, specializi...