Colorado, Days 5-6: Rest/Golden Gate Canyon Park

As you can probably tell from the title of the post, Mark and I took another day off yesterday after two straight days of hiking. Today however, we got up nice and early and headed out for Golden Gate Canyon Park. We felt adventurous today, so we decided to undertake the most difficult hike the park offered, the Black Bear trail. The intense 2.8 mile trail took about 2 hours and 20 minutes, while the lazy trip back on the Horseshoe trail at 2.7 miles took only 45 minutes. Check out some photos after the break.

About halfway through the trail, there was a great opening in the trees. We are about 9000 ft. above sea level.

We found a sweet rock formation about 500 feet from the opening in the trees. Mark began to climb...

...and then I began to climb. Hooray adventure!

The majestic view from the top of the Black Bear trail (9400 ft.). I have no idea how far away those mountains are but my best guess is about 35 miles.

This is another view from the top facing west instead of east. This view was very similar for about 300 degrees all the way from NE to SE. It was so peaceful... we hung out up here for about 15 minutes before finishing the hike.

After we got back from the park we watched game 5 of the Stanley Cup. I was kind of unhappy that the Red Wings lost in 3 OT... here's to hoping they can win game 6. The game itself was fairly trivial, considering we watched it at BW's and ran into a radiant and lovely girl named Amber. We chit-chatted, stayed for about 2 hours, and left a huge tip. Man I love Colorado... hahaha.

Cheers.

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