It one of those days. Cloudless day turned into cloudless evening. No drama in the sky. Yet, evening hike was very good, providing much needed fresh air mountain therapy, after spending all day starring at computer screen 😂.
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As far as high altitude refreshment, yep another new beer 😎, tonight is from Able Seed House Brewing, Minneapolis, called Shapes & Sizes Hazy IPA. It was tasty refreshing one.
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After a quick trip to Rhode Island to see my daughter, it is nice to be back home and resume some local hiking in our beautiful Colorado. Yep another sunset hike up to Mount Sanitas. 😎Dry air with cool mountain wind, what else can one ask for? Well, of course some type refreshment is always good to have at the summit, and tonight high elevation refreshment came from Toppling Goliath Brewing based in Iowa, Intergalactic Warrior IPA. Nice full body, little bitter beer. @winifredlezine did road trip to Minnesota and brought me some samples from a few states that she had to drive through.
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Visiting Rhode Island for a few days. I did drive through it about 7 years ago on my quest to visit all 50 states. This time spending more than one night. Nice place.
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It was not the end of it... see my previous post... He came down the tree and decided to hang out on the edge of our yard and the Farmers Ditch. Those yellow lillies looks like had some sweet nectar in them so bear decided to lick it out, in process pretty much making a mess out of them. Tried to get into my tomato patch behind the deer screen. Scratched his belly. Overall pretty much hang out there for half an hour. It was pretty cool to observe him from the safety of our balcony.
Watch out for video or two later today or tomorrow as well. 😎 .
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All fruit was gone from the kitchen table. Apples, pears, apricots, peaches, but not tomatoes. Cat food was eaten. Floors were muddy. Screen door was out. Evidence didn't fit occasional invasion of the neighbors dog, which tries to steal cat food and unlikely to get wet in the ditch. Puzzling too is that I was next room to the kitchen, like 15 feet away, and didn't hear a thing, during maybe 10-15 minutes when this all happened. Silent food stealing intruder.
We scratched our heads, could that be a bear, but in the middle of the day? And yard work folks running their machines at the time in the next yard, not possible. Yet we started looking up in the nearby trees. Yep, darn little black bear up 100 or so feet in the tree... Sleeping off and digesting stolen food. .
Now we have to keep patio door shut any time we are not in the kitchen. Can't allow this behavior to be repeated.
Boulder Colorado life 😎 .
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Right place, right time. That's the main factor in seeing some awesome scenery with perfect light. Sometimes it lasts only for a few minutes. Had hard time deciding which one to put upfront... 😎 .
Tonights high altitude refreshment came from Great Divide Brew, the Denver Pale Ale, refreshing drink on a good hike.
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Cloudy most of the day, with late afternoon thunder and rain coming through, which probably scared away most folks from going up to Sanitas 👍 I was hoping for some drama in the sky with all those clouds, but by 8 they pretty much dissapered into the emptiness of the blue sky.
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Earlier in the morning I got a nice bike ride at the Heil Valley Ranch, so for the tonight high altitude refreshment I thought it would be appropriate to have Incredible Pedal IPA from Denver Beer. It's a good tasting and refreshing one. .
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4250 gain in elevation. 11 miles, 5.5 hours round trip. All to get up to the South Arapahoe Peak in Indian Peaks Wilderness. 13348 high baby. It was super windy as soon as I cleared tree line right around the old mine, but man can't beat those views. Arapahoe Glacier is right below and all the other local peaks surrounding me in their beauty. These pictures do not do any justice. Gotta see it in person. Not sure if my legs will recover for a sunset hike in a few hours. Might be just a couch potato for the rest of the day, we shall see.
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Even brought with me something to drink (besides water 😎) at the high altitude. Another one of my favorites - Sticks Pale Ale from Bootstrap Brewing. .
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Does anyone know if 4th of July road is open? Itching to get up to the high country...
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Nice sunset tonight. They are always nice, no matter what, but with last 24 hours rains, air was cool and super comfortable to be out there. .
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Tonights high altitude refreshment came from our local Oskar Blues Brewing. I only drink their Dale's Pale Ale. Very nice full body beer. Sometimes we stop by their place on Pearl, in fact I think it was the last place that we were out, last time I had a draft, before the lock down in late March, outside corner table, soaking evening sun and watching people go by. .
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