Summertime Fiddleback Adventures

[thurin]

Thurin
Thanks mate for that little trip around your part of the world, here in Australia we just don't get that beautiful colour in the trees like you have over your neck of the woods and your mountains are just out of this world, ours are more like large hills.
Your patch knife is a cracker ( great , awesome etc ) and I can't wait to test mine out.
Thanks for the great photos they are sensational.

Mick

You're welcome Mick. I hope to get to Australia one of these days. Definitely on my bucket list. Thanks for the comments. The Patch knife has quickly become one of my favorite EDC blades.

Those are some amazing pics Nathan! My dad lives in Arvada. I haven't been our there in a few years. The last time was for a hunting trip, and I got to see some of those beautiful colors. Seeing those pictures makes me realize I need to go out there soon.

My favorite picture is the second to last, the path with the aspens. I just love that. It looks like a fantastic trip. I am glad you got out there. Thanks for sharing all of the great pictures with us.

Tod

Thanks Tod. I grew up in Arvada then moved to Westminster for Jr. High and High School. Lived Downtown when I went to college. Lived in Broomfield since. Other then while downtown, my whole life I've lived in a 10 mile radius. I love it here.

The one with the path and the Aspens was my favorite as well. My other favorite was this one. I think it looks like the mountain's on fire, but it's just the aspen in the background.

Nathan:

Thanks for sharing as we certainly do not get to enjoy natures amazing transformation here in SW Florida.

Peter

You're welcome Peter. You also don't get to enjoy blizzards.

Absolutely stunning photos Nathan. Probably your best set ever, and that is really saying something given the quality of all your photos. God really used the best of his color palette when he made the Rocky mountains. Thanks again for capturing all that beauty and sharing it with us.

Phil

Thanks Phil. That's high praise coming from you.

Thanks for sharing Nathan. The sheer vastness of the area is truely awesome. I've only gone to CO for skiing, I'd really love to visit during the warmer months. Kinda reminded me of one of my favorite Ray Mears videos:

Living in southeastern PA, our church's men's retreat ends up being at a local campsite with fairly small mountains, though there are still plenty things to do (like eating all the fattening stuff that our pastors' wives wouldn't normally allow them to eat at home ).

Sorry to get all "religious," but in addition to forgetting all the worldly travels, being out in nature for me is one of my favorite ways to have a communion with my creator.

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

Ray Mears is the man.

I'm definitely a 3 season type of Colorado guy. I stay out of the mountains in the winter. Never been skiing and can't stand dealing with the traffic. But I'm glad other people do - it helps the economy a bunch.

Sounds like your retreat is a blast. I went up early for ours so I could hike around a bit before the masses got there. Then on Saturday we have the whole afternoon as free time so I jumped in the car and drove into RMNP for some alone time. Getting into the mountains and enjoying God's creation is like you said, a great way to have communion with our creator.

Great color in CO but autumn sure comes early!

Still a few weeks away at least down here. At altitude it comes early. Most of those pics are from between 9,000 and 12,000 feet.

Awesome pics gentlemen!

Nater, I stole some of your pics of Colorado and now I have new "home" and "lock" screens on my ipad. I can't believe the colors are changing in your neck of the woods already. We have a few more weeks to go before things really start changing here. I already overheard a few people saying the farmers almanac is predicting a bad winter like last year. I've got to get going on that firewood pile....

That's cool schmittie! I'm envious of folks that get a lot of brilliant colors. Here we mostly have just the yellow from the aspen with some occasional orange or red mixed in. One of the reasons I have the Autumn Blaze Maple - mix it up a little.

I know a lot of folks are hoping for a milder winter. Last year was tough on a bunch.

 

[NoFair]

Great pictures Nathan. Going up in the mountains next week, started to ponder which Fiddlebacks to bring

 

[thurin]

Great pictures Nathan. Going up in the mountains next week, started to ponder which Fiddlebacks to bring

Thanks!

The correct answer is always all of them.

Have fun!

 

[Mtblair]

Nathan,

Great pics! I took my family up to Estes Park on Saturday. The kids had a great time playing in the stream. The Aspens were great coming back along Rte 7 & 72. A co-worker stayed in a hotel near the Lake Estes an awoke to herd of elk off the back deck on Sunday morning. The rutting bulls put on quite the show.

Blair

 

[McVeyMac]

That looks like a very special weekend Nathan. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Schmittie, you better get to splitting that wood. Winter is coming. Over the past week and a half, I invested 4 days splitting wood. Still not done. I probably have 2 more days to get everything split that I have bucked up. I am trying to get ahead of the wood splitting so that I can enjoy the upcoming fall.

 

[trestle]

Ah...it's the altitude. :thumbup: Beautiful colors.

Do you at least go tubing in the winter?

 

[thurin]

Ah...it's the altitude. :thumbup: Beautiful colors.

Do you at least go tubing in the winter?

Tubing we do. Spent spring break last year in Breckenridge to do the tubing hill in Frisco and a lot of time on the sled hill in Breck. Oh, and snowball fights in the hot tubs. Fun times.

 

[schmittie]

That looks like a very special weekend Nathan. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Schmittie, you better get to splitting that wood. Winter is coming. Over the past week and a half, I invested 4 days splitting wood. Still not done. I probably have 2 more days to get everything split that I have bucked up. I am trying to get ahead of the wood splitting so that I can enjoy the upcoming fall.

Sounds like good advice Mac.

I spent Sunday splitting loads of wood for my brother and I'm feeling it in my shoulders and back today. But now that his stack is good to go, I can focus on mine. Hopefully I'll be done splitting and stacking by mid-October.

 

[RRaconteur]

Great shots, Nathan. I am so jealous of your photography skills (and your Fiddlebacks, but that's another story) and your location. I just love CO.

Also, your comment about this being the end of summer adventures gave me a bit of a start. I know what the calendar says, but there's just the tiniest but of color in the trees up on the bluffs here. I've been grateful for he turn away from summer, but fall just hit me. Right here, right now.


Michael