hiking

update
friday hike with daughter didn't happen due to bad weather

saturday hike with a couple of Chicago friends did happen and they were very strong.  We hiked from snowmass to the aspen rec center along the government trail (with a spin up anaerobic
nightmare just to test them out).  They did great.  My dogs flushed a moose which was cool and probably illegal.  We also got hailed on a couple of times and did not get hit by lightning although the wife called twice to confirm that I was not dead.

Wife "you dead yet"
moi " not yet"
Wife "hummmm ok"

rain cleared and we warmed up and enjoied the beginning of the leaves turning.  Yikes that was fast.  Then we took the dogs to the rec center for a swim.  They got to go down the slides and swim in the lazy river.  Very cool.  Later that day we 'hiked' from out house .3 miles to the jazz aspen snowmass fest and listened to black pistol fire (very good), thievery corp (not my cup of tea but very loud) and the killers (excellent but really could have been listening to a record).

Solid Saturday right?

Sunday hike .3 miles to listen to stevie wonder.  He was great.

Monday the family plus 2 dogs hiked up to lake grizzly.  wow what a stunning hike.  "Only" 3.6 miles up and "just" 2000 feet.  oh yea the starting elevation is 10.5.  I know the locals probably think it's a piece of cake but I had a couple moments of heavy breathing.  Lets see if I can figure out how to insert a picture (success see above).