Thank you so much for this Broadsview Challenge!

It’s 21 degrees this November morning, but now it’s a habit! My partners, Jim the husband and Doug the dog, join me as we climb the Sky Steps in Durango. I don’t know how many times we climbed up and down this summer and fall, but thanks to the BroadsView challenge, we are doing it! And we are all getting stronger and stronger and stronger.

Nearly every weekend this summer and fall we went for long hikes, enjoying the vast beauty of Southwestern Colorado and a tad bit of Utah. Here are some of the trips my partners and I have taken this summer and fall:

• Pine River Trail
• Emerald Creek Trail
• Cascade Creek (3 times)
• Ice Lake (twice)
• Goody’s Rest (Colorado Trail)
• Little Molas Lake (Colorado Trail)
• Highland Mary
• Missionary Ridge
• Archer National Park
• Canyonlands National Park (both entrances)
• Canyon of the Ancients (twice)
• Upper Hermosa Creek with Broads for Cattle Grazing Monitoring. (That was the day we got lost coming back to the car.)

The high elevations amazed us- and I was surprised we had the stamina to climb so high (12,000+ feet). Let me share these pics with you. The one at Arches National Park was taken on the last day of the BroadsView Challenge, October 17. It is apropos that we found ourselves in Utah on the day this challenge ended.