Saturday, January 31, 2009

Mountaineering 101


Chris Melby, my father-in-law, is passing on his love and knowledge of mountaineering to me. We snowshoed up the Long's Peak trail near Estes Park and then veered off to Chasm Lake. Not many people see the sights of the lake like we did. Unbelievable. It was really fun to get to use my crampons and ice axe for the first time. The wind was ferocious in places, but mostly a really beautiful day.

1 comment:

The Jernigan Crew said...

VERY cool pics Rob. I'm glad it went well. Nice music in teh background too - how did you do that?
Love ya, Heather