Rocky Mountain National Park

(as usual… starting with Spanish – scroll down for English)

     Esto mañana nosotros despierta muy temprano en la mañana para ir a un caminata de 6 millas en los Montanas Rocosas.  Nosotros tienen desayuno y ir a el carro. En el carro yo tienen un blanketa y tratar a dormir. Pero solo un corto pedazo de tiempo después nosotros encuentran dos alce muy cerca a la calle!  Ellos están haciendo un apareamiento cosa o lucha. Pero los dos son niñas. Estan amigas? Nunca vas a saber. Después de esto nosotros entran el carro y ir a el camineta otra vez. Somos muy cerca a la comienzo del sendero cuando nosotro verimos tres alce (in spanish elk and moose are described as the same thing.  Now I am talking about Elk and before I was talking about Moose) ! Son bellozas y tienen muy grande cornamentas! En muy corto tiempo nosotros estamos en la cabeza de la caminata y empezamos en la viaje.

     Tan pronto como empezamos hay un arroyo!  Nosotros lo siguió para un buen tiempo, lo perdímos, y lo encontramos otra vez.  Necesitamos cruzar muchas veces encima de estos interesantes troncos! Después de como un milla hay un cascada fantástica!  No era algo muy especial, pero es un cascada, y yo encanta cascadas. Yo puedo ser muy feliz si esto era el único guay característica de agua, pero esto caminata quieran impresionar yo.  En un poco minutos después de la “so so” cascada, encontramos un GIGANTE cascada! Era muy ruidoso y brillo en la sol. Nos fuimos de nuevo, caminan acantilados rocosos, ver fascinantes flores(pero infortunadamente mi mama quiero mirar y identificar cada uno con un libro de flores!) y miran a bonitas vistas de montañas con nieve encima de ellos.  En la caminata nosotros incluso ver alguna nieve! Hazel era muy estática de la nieve y ella llaven un poco y ella llaman la nieve “baby snow”.

     Finalmente nosotros están en la parte superior!  Era maravillosa. Hay un vista de un reluciente lago con los montanas en la fondo.  Nosotros sentamos para un rato admirativo la vista y comen algunos aperitivos. Los ardillas eran muy felices de esto parte.  Un poco escalar Hazel y mio manos y tratan a comer algo! Pequeños ladrones furtivos. Después de un divertido caminata, nosotros ir de vuelta a la sito de RVs para “chillax”.  Era solo 11:00 en la mañana, y ya yo estoy tienen unos de los fantasticos dias de mi vida!     

  This morning we woke up at the crack of dawn to go on a 6 mile hike in Rocky Mountain National Park.  We stumbled from our beds, whipped up some breakfast half asleep (ok well, our parents made us breakfast) and stumbled into the car.  I wrapped up in a leopard print blanket (it is NOT an ocelot print, Mom) and tried to get some sleep. No sooner had I shut my eyes when we had our first wildlife sighting of the day.  A moose! Two actually. They seemed to be doing some sort of fight/mating ritual thing. Which is weird because they both had no antlers so I am assuming they were girls. Friendly handshake?  Guess we’ll never know. Then we drove a little while longer, with me trying to get some sleep, when we saw elk! They were beautiful and had huge antlers! Shortly after that we arrived at the trail head around 7:00 (it was about an hour and a half drive) and set off on our journey.  

       As soon as we started a creek emerged from behind the underbrush.  We followed it for a while, lost it and then found it again. We had to cross it multiple times on these cool logs.  Then, after about 1 mile there was a cool waterfall! It wasn’t super impressive, but no matter the size, I love waterfalls.  I would have been perfectly happy if this was the only interesting water feature we saw on the trail, but this path seemed to want to impress me.  Just a little bit after the meh waterfall, we came across a HUGE waterfall! It was awesome to see, cascading down and thundering on the rocks.  It was amazing. Off we went again, hiking up rocky cliff sides, seeing a variety of cool flowers (unfortunately Mom had to stop at EVERY single one and identify them with this new flower book she got) and admiring the beautiful vistas of snow-capped mountains the trail provided us with.  Along the way, we even saw some snow! Hazel was very excited. She picked up some and proclaimed it her baby snow.  

     Finally, we reached the top.  It was gorgeous.  There was a view of a sparkling lake with the looming mountains behind it.  We sat there for a while, looking at the view and munching on some snacks. The chipmunks were very happy about that part.  A few even climbed on Hazel and my hands trying to grab some of the food! Sneaky little thieves. After an eventful hike, we walked 3 miles back down and went back to the RV site to chilax.  It was barely 11:00 in the morning and already I’d had one of the greatest days of my life!