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Rocky Mountain National Park Wildflowers

Since July is peak wildflower season in the Rocky Mountains, we constantly found ourselves saying how pretty all the flowers were, immediately followed by, “I wonder what it’s called.”  So I took pictures of what I could and found this awesome wildflower website with names and images of the flowers …

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Rocky Mountain National Park: Day 3 Of The Alpine Adventures, Trail Ridge Road At Dusk

Today there was a very high chance of rain in the afternoon, so Ashley and I headed to Boulder to the Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory and took our tea-loving selves on their free tour.  It was pretty great, but we were having major RMNP withdrawal so we quickly headed back …

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Rocky Mountain National Park: Day 2 Of The Alpine Adventures, Mind Blown Even More

Yesterday, Ashley and I took the Trail Ridge Road up the Rocky Mountains, and if we were astounded hiking the lake trails, it barely scratched the surface of what we felt yesterday being surrounded by the majesty of these mountains.  I’ve never seen anything like this.  We were on a …

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Rocky Mountain National Park: Day 1 Of The Alpine Adventures, Mind Officially Blown

I’m in Heaven.  I mean, I might as well be because I’m so freaking high in the air.  Altitude sickness is awful.  When Ashley and I got to Estes Park, CO yesterday we felt sort of drunk and queasy and dizzy and headache-y…ick.  But we woke up this morning and …

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