Monday, September 10, 2007

Camping at 9200' (CO)


Awoke to drizzle and clouds, 38 degrees. Marcia made scrambled eggs and toast and we were soon ready to do something, but nothing too strenuous – the 2.5 mile Raccoon Trail, marked “moderate”. Parts were strenuous but it felt good, and the view from Panorama Point was worth it (not). Nothing but clouds.

We drove to Golden for the free Coors brewery tour, which included samples and three complementary 12-oz beers of our choice. Although Golden has a beautiful old downtown, we instead had dinner in another beautiful town, Boulder, at Old Chicago Pizza, the same place Dan and Erika took us to with Erika’s parents John & Denise two years ago. Pizza remains excellent. Definitely fly endorsed, however.

Old Chicago Pizza is on Pearl Street and is at one end of several blocks where traffic has been eliminated and park elements added, along with very good public art. The strip looked not as healthy as two years ago but this may have been because this time its Monday night. Still, many fine restaurants and Boulder-style shopping—bookstores, art galleries, photo galleries, clothing shops—most everything with an outdoors theme.

Our trusty truck carried us the 4000’ from the Denver plains to our mountain perch three times on three different routes, twice in the black of a moonless night on a two-lane winding sometimes unpaved road, sometimes in a drizzle. Fortunately, other than our first entry and our final exit, we didn’t have the trailer to tow.

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