Sorry for the confusion!

I am posting these pics in a fast motion. Sorry if there are errors, but I am TOO tired to go back and check. Also, please go all the way down and read back up! Love and miss you all!!!!!!!!!

AND the hike down...

View down the gulley.
This is a view from inside the of the gulley as we were just starting our journey downward.

Colorado's state flower, the Columbine. It is a $500 fee if you pick or kill a single flower!

Believe it or not, the hike down is worse than the way up. It is a lot of jarring on your knees and cranking on your quadriceps. To get to our warm car and Beau Jeau's Pizza-we had to go down a steeply inclined gulley while manuvering loose rock and many boulders. Finally we hit flat ground only to find ourselves sludging through a muddy meadow and brush past our necks...I was about to cry for the second time. Yes, at this point I questioned my sanity. To make this trip more memorable, we had to power walk the last mile and a half due to hail and rain...finally, we made it to warm food and I passed out at eight pm that night!

on the way to Mt. Evans

This is the vies down from the backside of "the Sawtooth". I could barely look around me, as for the fear of losing control of my bladder! The far high hill is Mt. Bierstadt.

View on the way to Evans...

On top of the world...I mean ontop of Mt. Evans, the highest paved road in the US. If we were smart we would have gotten up at noon and drove up instead!

It is worth getting up at 3:30 am for this!

Why don't you come along?
This is the hiker view from the trail in the very beginning of the 10 mile hike. Pat and I did our first 14'ers of the season, Bierstadt and Evans. It was the most physically and mentally challenging summits I have accomplished so far! Here are pics of the way to the top of Bierstadt...at this point I could not breath, my heart was racing, and was scared to death of what was ahead of me.




This was the part I was fearing. To the right here is "the Sawtooth". You have to hike just below the zig-zagging ridge to get to Mt. Evans. There is a narrow trail on the left wall that you can see to the left of "the Sawtooth (the wall that is in the shadow). I started to cry and was shaking. Pat informed me that there was no turning back...from there on I was telling myself 'breathing in strength and breathing out fear' for the rest of the hike.

Can't forget these!

Here is Dad displaying his "Three Beers Down" act of entertainment...hahaha!

Mom made us do it!

I still think this is all a dream...

Who would have EVER thought that Mom and Dad would be so brave? Most people have seen these photo's, but I have to put it in the digital blog archive. For those of you that haven't seen or heard, here are photo's from out 2 and 3 Class rafting trip. It is also proof of Dad's fullfillment of one of his lifelong dreams...Mom on the other hand, had to of had the biggest adrenaline rush of her life!