Day 7! Independence Pass

Today we started up interstate 70 to a trail Jeff had found, but when we got close we realized it was still snowed in.  I had seen a sign that Independence Pass was open so off we went!

Frozen lake still thawing!

Lunch stop!  Picnic in a pulloff!

Lunch view!

Kids had a secret hideout!

I love you!!!

Someone's mouths were full of 3 Musketeers!

After we left our lunch stop, we noticed the aspen trees were really leafed out!  Brilliant green!

 Enter avalanche area.  They weren't joking!  It hadn't been cleared for very long and it was crazy!  We saw trees sticking out of snowbanks.  I don't know what is going to happen when the snow melts.  I'm sure the trees are going to shift somehow and maybe go in the road again.

High snow and see the trees sticking out from the banks?

Waterfall coming off the mountain going up to Independence Pass!

No joke! Higher than the pickup!

Would it be called paraskiing???

Climbing up to the lookout.  So funny because we were going up a path and looked over at the top and realized we were nowhere near the actual path.  It was covered in snow.

This was spectacular!

 On the way back, we found a place to pull over with trails and we went over a raging river and walked along part of a trail. Really neat.

Raging river.  Zane was scared because it was so powerful!

Someone got over their fear when sister went closer with Daddy.

Awwww

Looking at beaver lakes

Beaver lodge

Jeff's artsy video he took.  :) :) :)


I hope you enjoyed this episode of our Colorado vacation!