I just came back from Colorado. We stayed at a lofty cabin in a small town in a valley between some mountains called Pitkin. (Pitkin is a 4-hour drive from Colorado Springs, and our plane didn't land there; it landed in Denver, which is an hour and ½ from Colorado Springs, so on our first day, we stayed at a hotel and went to places around Colorado Springs.)
Day 1
Day 1 was not exactly the most exciting. We drove from a hotel in Denver to Pikes Peak. There, we waited a few minutes for our cousins to arrive, and then hiked a bit up the mountains. We got back down just in time to board the cog train up Pikes Peak. The way up took about 2 hours (ugh) but the views were beautiful. I took the picture ↑ above ↑ from the train. Cog trains are pretty cool because they can go up mountains at a 25° angle, powered upwards by spinning gears. That is also how the train can control its speed on the way down. When we reached the summit of Pikes Peak we were allowed 40 minutes to go to the bathroom, look around, buy a donut at the gift shop, etc. Pikes Peak is at 14,114 feet up so I became quite dizzy, but it was fun. :D
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| This is me, Tristan, my cousin Sawyer, and my cousin Dawson in front of the train. |
After we got down from Pikes Peak, we went to the Garden of the Gods. I think that was more fun than the 4-hours total train ride. When we got there, we all ran about collecting quartz and red pebbles from the rock formations. There were some climbing hooks where people were climbing the structures, but they were too big for us to climb up...
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| Tristan, Sawyer, Dawson, and me on a small rock at the Garden of the Gods. |
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| This picture has a pretty good view of the bigger rock formations and in the grass, there's a random deer. :P |
After that was lunch/dinner combined at about 4:00 (Colorado time of course) and the rest of the day wasn't interesting. We went to the grocery store and then was the 4-hour drive to Pitkin. We arrived in Pitkin sometime at night and went to sleep.
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