Cunundrum

We had a fabulous summer! Two trips to Denver, a trip to Utah, and side trips to Mesa Verde, Aspen, and Moab. On our second trip to Denver, Daniel went to a medical conference and coupled that with hiking a 14er (14000 feet elevation) with the Sabey family. It was a high adventure with some great stories. When Daniel called me to re-cap the hike he prefaced it with "Don't tell Lisa." Some of the adventurous things were climbing up loose rocks: 2 steps up, 1 step slide backwards. Daniel had to dodge a brief case size boulder that came straight at his head. Although that was probably made up for when they hot tubbed with "naturally" dressed women. (That news came from my nephews not Daniel). Towards the end at least one of the hikers were on all fours thinking death was at the next bend. And Mark took his life in his hands when he glasaded down a steep icy hill that ended into a bunch of big sharp rocks. Everyone was grateful he stopped in time--and the remainder chose to hike down on the side of the ice field. It was memorable, fun, exciting and maybe a little anti-climatic since they didn't quite make it to 14000 feet (Lindsey, Kimmer and Rachel have hiked done a 14er with the Sabey's so they are still one up on Daniel). Daniel and the Sabey's have learned that if they want to hike Cunundrum again they should take a different route, with less rocks. But overall it was a great trip that Daniel would happily do again.