Colorado Again

I convinced Mary to head out to Colorado for one more training round before Kilimanjaro.  It was great.  We hiked two more 14,000' peaks.  To keep things simple, we just slept in the back of the truck at the trailheads each night...and then a quick overnight in Moab on the way home. 

This first day we hiked Quandary Peak.  This was quite a haul up the fall line of the mountain.  We started out in the trees, but the hike soon rose above the tree line and traversed the rocky scree to the top. 

The views from the top were amazing!!!

The next day we hiked Mount Democrat, which is a much shorter and easier hike.  We camped at the trailhead at Kite Lake.  It was a chilly night and a frosty morning.  I don't have any pictures of the Mount Democrat hike because my camera battery died from the cold.  A nice fellow took this picture of us at the top with his cell phone though and emailed it to us.