Favorite Place: Colorado

I love being outdoors so choosing one from many places was really difficult, but I decided on the Colorado. Whether it is winter time or summertime you can find me in the mountains, hiking, skiing or fishing.
There is something so surreal about it being dead quiet in the mountains that you can not really find many other places. One of my favorite places in Colorado is Mount Elbert which is the highest mountain found in the Colorado with an elevation of 14,440 ft.
(Pictured above is Mount Elbert Picture Source: proactiveoutside - WordPress.com)

This mountain is classified as a "Fourteener" Which is one of 53 mountains in Colorado that rise above 14,000 feet in elevation. All fourteeners have trails that you can hike that take most of the day, I have been able to do three fourteeners so far and look forward to doing many more.


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  1. Laura GibbsAugust 23, 2018 at 10:27 AM

    Beautiful, Drew! I was in Keystone Colorado this summer; Mount Dercum is not one of the fourteen, but I was still very impressed. I hope I can go back and explore some more! Maybe you will want to learn about the great mountains of India for this class: going up into the mountains is part of the epic quest in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata! The Himalayas are famously the home of Lord Shiva and his family: Mount Kailash

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  3. Laura GibbsAugust 23, 2018 at 10:31 AM

    WHOOPS: double-posted! Blogger hiccup. :-)

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