Sunday, December 30, 2018

White Ranch hike on Christmas Eve

I love love love these two!
An enormous, blessed benefit to living in Colorado is pictured here!
Joshua and Erica live here, and Thalia comes here to visit from Florida.
 We met at White Ranch, close to Golden, CO, for a hike.
 Larry, Brenda, Eli, Lissette, Brian, Thomas, Joshua and Thalia all got there before Ron and I...so they took off on the trail.
 Lissette fell on an icy patch so they were on their way back to the car when we arrived.  
Larry and Eli stayed...while Brenda, Lissette, Brian and Thomas went home.

We took off...for Joshua, Thalia, Larry and Eli, they took off again!
See Joshua and Baxter up ahead?
 Thalia was going for it...
uphill for the 2nd time.
It was probably a bit tough seeing as she lives at sea level in Florida and this was at about 7,000 feet!
 There were beautiful homes around the trails.




 When we stopped to take some pictures, Ron was advised by his granddaughter and son to remove the orange vest!



 Come on, Thalia!
 Not too long after this, Joshua noticed Thalia was a bit pale...
Altitude...
so they headed back.
Ron, Larry, Eli, Baxter and I continued on for awhile.
 Eli is 8 years old...and he's quite the hiker.
He must get it from his grandpa (Larry) and his mom!
We had been climbing...and climbing...and he suggested we stop for a "little break."
 These pictures were taken from there.

 Brothers!
 I told Eli to go stand by his grandpa!
Knowing I had food to make for tomorrow's Christmas dinner, we headed downhill from here.  This ended up as a 3.5 mile hike for Ron and I.  
Another great hike in Colorado!

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