To the Top

My mom and I hiked the Royal Arch today. It's a classic Boulder hike, and yet, one neither of us have done (I am making headway on ticking off everything on that list - I will be doing the Bolder Boulder this year).

Anyway, David had hiked this several times, mostly in the dark. Yes. It's a killer place to watch the sun rise. It's also a killer hike. It's only a mile, but it has an altitude gain of 1200ft. And since we did it in January, there was a lot of ice on the trail - for added challenge you know. I am not ashamed to admit I came down a significant part of the trail on my butt. It may have been a Tuesday, but we passed at least 20-25 people doing the hike. 3 of them were running. One of the runners had a killer pair of shoes... I never found out what they were...
Anyway, we're planning for next Tuesday - I found a nice 3.5 mile hike in south Boulder. The book says there is an altitude gain of 3000 ft. Watch me kill it.