Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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(Hrm... guess we should have coordinated blogging. But fortunately for you, now you get to read about the same stuff in two different posts!)
Sister JoAnna elects to move from Michigan to Colorado for a few months to experience a whole new world filled with things like sunshine, an economy, and mountains. We celebrate her arrival with an initiation of climbing, hiking, and cooking lessons. Some recent adventures.
Climbing at Lily Lake (more photos here)
You couldn't pick a more beautiful setting to frame the moderate sport climbs at Lily Lake. We had most of the day to ourselves (except for a short parade of summer campers hiking by) to play on a few routes, and Jo concealed her fear of plummeting to her death long enough to try it out.
It's not just the power of the pink helmet. She really is a stud.
Greyrock Hike (photos)
A beautiful 6-mile hike just outside of Fort Collins. This has become our standby for taking visitors.
A sidenote: we take this on with some fear and trepidation. This is a girl who already in her short life has endured a broken jaw, a broken tailbone, and has pretty much decimated every ligament in both knees, all on separate occasions. This either makes her very resilient or very clumsy. I am very protective of my little sis and would like to return her to Michigan in the same condition or better. Yet we can't have her come to Colorado and not do all this fun stuff, can we? So we go out anyway. But rest assured, parental units, we are being really really careful (see the helmet above?).
It has been fun to have her here, and we are looking forward to more adventures to come this fall!
Sister JoAnna elects to move from Michigan to Colorado for a few months to experience a whole new world filled with things like sunshine, an economy, and mountains. We celebrate her arrival with an initiation of climbing, hiking, and cooking lessons. Some recent adventures.
Climbing at Lily Lake (more photos here)
You couldn't pick a more beautiful setting to frame the moderate sport climbs at Lily Lake. We had most of the day to ourselves (except for a short parade of summer campers hiking by) to play on a few routes, and Jo concealed her fear of plummeting to her death long enough to try it out.
It's not just the power of the pink helmet. She really is a stud.
Greyrock Hike (photos)
A beautiful 6-mile hike just outside of Fort Collins. This has become our standby for taking visitors.
A sidenote: we take this on with some fear and trepidation. This is a girl who already in her short life has endured a broken jaw, a broken tailbone, and has pretty much decimated every ligament in both knees, all on separate occasions. This either makes her very resilient or very clumsy. I am very protective of my little sis and would like to return her to Michigan in the same condition or better. Yet we can't have her come to Colorado and not do all this fun stuff, can we? So we go out anyway. But rest assured, parental units, we are being really really careful (see the helmet above?).
It has been fun to have her here, and we are looking forward to more adventures to come this fall!
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