A Squirrel... and Other Cool Things

Yes, I know. I've failed at the blogging thing for the last few weeks. [insert lame excuse here] Moving on...

A few weeks ago, we took advantage of the beautiful weather to do some more snowshoeing. We headed up to Rocky Mountain National Park with new (and much better) snowshoes.

Look, a squirrel!

The sun was shining, and the weather was not too cold. In fact, we actually got pretty hot at times and we had to do some layer shuffling.

Walking by a snow cupcake.

Not only was the weather gorgeous, but the scenery and the terrain was pretty cool, too.

Twisted tree. Cool.

Hiking.

We climbed up to a couple of different lakes in the area.

The first lake, Mills Lake.

Dave, doing his photography thing.

Walking across the lake. This is why snowshoeing is cool; you can't be in this spot in the summer... at least not if you want to stay dry.

To head up to the next lake, we had a pretty steep climb ahead of us. It was a workout, but our new snowshoes certainly did their job.

Steep climb.

The second lake, Loch Vale.

Matt fell over. I don't know why.

The following pictures were obviously not taken by me. Again, these awesome pictures are Dave's handiwork.

Mills Lake.

"Ooh, look!"

Mills Lake.

Loch Vale.

After our hike, the guys had beer waiting. The beer they'd worked so hard on had been fermenting for a couple of weeks, and it was time to bottle. I, as usual, had tons of homework, so I hid in the back and worked. I seem to do that a lot.

Beer.

In a couple of weeks the beer will finally be ready for drinking. And that's my favorite part.