Get Up

While I worked during the week, I don’t think my parents did much other than read. So I had to get them up and out hiking this past weekend. While the hikes were extremely easy, they were at least out doing some walking. Hopefully they will do more of that, but I doubt it. Saturday we went to Roxborough State Park. We did the Fountain Valley Trail. It’s a beautiful hike through the red rocks.


Moms & Pops on the Fountain Valley Trail






A view along the trail



Moms & Pops hiking up the trail from Persse Place






Lyons Overlook







On Sunday, we went to Castlewood Canyon State Park. It is a state park near Castle Rock. Cherry Creek runs through the canyon. There are ruins of a dam there. It broke in 1933 and flooded parts of downtown Denver. We did a short hike down into the small canyon and took in a Clark Griswold view of the dam and then climbed back out of the canyon. Apparently dogs are good at finding rattlesnakes. We met one couple with a dog that saw two rattlesnakes. They turned around and warned as about one snake, but we never saw it. Another couple with a dog had an encounter with a rattlesnake; unfortunately their dog got bitten on the nose. From the stories we pieced together, this happened shortly after we walked through that section of trail. We never saw or heard the snake.


Pops on a rock in Castlewood Canyon














Above: Moms & Pops in front of a conglomerate rock




The dam is right there, but it is too far...





Pops & a tree