We got away for what I think will be the last camping trip of the summer. We went to Shadow Mountain Lake which is on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park near Grand Lake. Dan's brother Jason was in Denver working on a project and we were able to kidnap him for a few days. We were a little disappointed with the campsite, it seems the pine beetle has really taken over up there and the park service has had to cut down many of the trees including most of them in the campsite. We decided to drive through the park on Saturday, it had been a really long time since Dan and I had driven through and it was Jason's first time up there. It was a pretty good showing, we immediately saw 2 female moose in the distance. We also got to see about 2 dozen elk and a marmot along with some snow at the top. It was a beautiful sunny day just perfect for the drive. On the way back out (we only drove to the top and turned around) Dan saw a sign for another campsite we were not familiar with so we went to check it out. It was more of an RV park with a nice stream running through. When we stopped to look around we saw another female moose this one with twins not far behind!!! The are really getting comfortable with people they were in the driveway of someone's house!!!
On Sunday we decided to drive all the way through the park and home through Boulder. It was another great day for site seeing! We had great weather again, just a few sprinkles and more moose!!! This time it as a male, big antlers and all... check out this guy! 2 more marmots at the top, lots more elk and of course my chipmunks. We forgot the seeds but they still came up to our hands looking.
It was another story once we got back to the front range. We could see the clouds building and looking scarer and scarer as we headed south east. As it turned out we were about and hour after the hail, wind and even a tornado that touched down just north of Castle Rock!!!
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