Colorado-Fort Collins

The final stage of our trip and to complete our global circumnavigation we dropped into Colorado to catch up with family and do some skiing, something that's been on the "to do" list for years.
First stop, Cath and Joe in Fort Collins. With the mad Robbie-dog and Jim-cat what wonderful hosts and what a great place they live! Original plans might have been to ski/ ski tour but the worst ( driest) winter in 60 yrs but we adapted and in 5 days we explored their locale like FoCo locals. We biked around their uber bike friendly city, and climbed local peaks- Horsetooth and Grey Mountain. We ran some local trails , checked out the gear shops and explored fave coffee spots - me oh my indeed! We celebrated Helen's birthday with the brilliant mid winter 🥶 bike to work day and then had a sneaky after work trip ( and therefore Trump-national-park-fee dodging 🤪) to find snow high up in the impressive Rocky Mountain National Park.
Come the weekend we were presented with a bluebird day and after a drive higher up the mountains we found plenty white stuff at Cameron Pass. We had a brilliant tree ski tour -in places we were floundering in metre deep powder -and although the ski down verged more on the "tree" than the "ski" we had a great adventure led ably and safely by Joe and friend Jace. If this a poor snow season , we need more like this in Scotland. !Leggi altro