Monthly Archives: April 2011

Preparing for summer road trip

The past few weeks I have been preparing for the imminent summer road trips. The van is getting an overhaul and make-over to many systems with new solar panels, new bikes and rack to carry them, as well as many …

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Bierstadt Lake hike

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This past Monday Conor and I chose to hike up in Rocky Mountain National Park. We knew the weather would be semi-poor, including the chance of snow and rain. Because of the weather we originally chose three different hikes, none …

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Heil Valley Ranch hike

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Conor and I hit a local trail yesterday. Just a few miles down the road the ‘Pitcure Rock trail’ of Heil Valley Ranch only just opened for use in 2008. It proved to be a very well manicured trail, popular …

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Tim’s first track meet

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Tim had his first track meet this past Wednesday. Yep, he chose it himself to compete in track after school. After this past two weeks of training almost every day after school Tim ran in his first competitions; Long-jump, High-jump, …

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