Fire & Ice...

After going to church and brunch this morning (yes...we are old and married) we headed up the mountain to do some snowshoeing! Leaving our house we noticed a lot of smoke coming from the mountains behind our house where we go hiking (about 4 blocks up). We weren't sure at first, but thought it might be a forest fire.
When the weather gets warm, it was in the upper 70s today, Boulder is usually under a fire watch; well today we definitely were under a warning! Here are some photos that we took from the car...it's hard to see the flames, but we definitely saw some!





You can kind of see the flames in this one...



Thankfully the roads around the mountains were blocked off and the fire was contained. By the time we got back down the mountain the fire was out...just a lot of smoke still lingering even into the night.

After taking pictures we headed up to Nederland and found a place to go snowshoeing! We headed up this dirt road for about 2-3 miles climbing up to a high eleveation, we think over 9,000 feet to this park called Caribu. It was a beautiful place but very deserted.

We had a wonderful day for snowshoeing; lots of sunshine and decently warm weather in the 40s. We went on a trail for about 2 hours. Here are some pictures...









This is for dad...we found lots of Aspen trees on our little adventure!







We were surrounded by endless snow and trees on our trails; it was so amazing! We didn't see any wildlife, which was probably a good thing, but there were signs warning us that moose live in the area.

Here is a mountain in the distance...we don't know which one it was but it was so beautiful! The sky was just so clear today...





I climbed a little further up to the top of a big hill to get some better pictures of the area...







I loved snowshoeing, and I think we're going to go again somewhere different this coming weekend! Will enjoyed it as well, but is looking forward to playing golf next weekend and actually pretending its spring time! Will is very much over the cold weather...but expects snow everyday now.

We had a wonderful weekend and hope everyone else did as well!!