Lair o’ the Bear Park

It continues to be gorgeous weather here in the Front Range and so we decided to go hiking with Will and Moses in the Foothills on Saturday, November 12th.  We had heard of a little park called Lair o’ the Bear Park near Morrison in Jefferson County and began to drive that way.  The drive

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Mt. Galbraith Park Loop: Golden, CO

Distance: 4.34 miles (lollipop; exploring) Elevation Gain: 1,264 ft (total) 950 ft (net)  Max Elevation: 7,228 ft  Min. Elevation: 6,278 ft  “Keep Calm and Hike On” Hiking Aphorism While so many of our hikes have taken us into high elevation, critters of the slithering kind have been placed in the backs of our minds the last several months. Instead of watching our

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Dinosaur Ridge and Dakota Ridge

Distance: 2.54 miles (out-and-back; spurs) Elevation Gain: 442 ft  Max Elevation: 5,963 ft  Min. Elevation: 6,366 ft This past weekend was a very rainy and thunderstorm filled weekend when Thomas’ mother came to visit us.  Since she’s an elementary school teacher we thought this was an ideal time to check out Dinosaur Ridge and the Dakota Ridge Hike.  The ‘hike’ is

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