{"id":2746,"date":"2016-08-14T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T22:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2016-08-14T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T22:56:22","slug":"summer-roadtrip-mt-evans-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=2746","title":{"rendered":"Summer Roadtrip: Mt. Evans, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

[We’ve been having technical difficulties here at apAdventures. Everything should be working now. I hope! Sorry for the delay in the summer road trip posts.]<\/p>\n

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Next stop on our 2016 summer roadtrip: alpine bouldering on Mt. Evans, Colorado. This was more of a test mission than a sending mission for us. Having last been here 8 years ago (pre-kids), we wanted to see if the little guys were ready for the 3 mile approach to these boulders sitting above 11,000 feet elevation. Psychologically and logistically prepped for a heinously long and grueling day, where the potential of kid-carrying on shoulders was extremely high, we were almost a little disappointed in this turning out to be quite an uneventful day. We left the Echo Lake campground around 7am (adding an additional mile to the approach by not driving over to the trailhead), hiked up to the boulders, climbed all day and hiked back. Back at camp that night around dinner bowls of warm chili the kids were their wild and energetic selves, getting scolded for too much goofing off around the dinner table, not phased a bit about the 8 mountain miles they had just hiked. Just another day out bouldering! Haha.<\/p>\n


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\nEcho Lake, Mt. Evans, Colorado – the evening before the big hiking\/bouldering day<\/center><\/p>\n


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\nSite #2 at Echo Lake Campground<\/center><\/p>\n


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\nHitting the trail at an alpine boulderer’s start of 7am, haha<\/center><\/p>\n


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\nStill hiking…<\/center><\/p>\n


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\nIvan stops to pick a seeded dandelion so he can make a wish<\/center><\/p>\n


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\n…many steps later he’s still trying to decide what to wish for. “It needs to be a good one!”<\/center><\/p>\n


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\nCrossing the log bridges was definitely the highlight of the day for the little guys. We let them cross completely on their own…because, well, they can probably do it without falling in, and also honestly, how’s a person actually supposed to help a kid across a precarious log bridge without the both of you falling in anyway? <\/center><\/p>\n


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\nFinally at the boulders. Me on The Ladder, v2<\/em>.<\/center><\/p>\n


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\nMe about to flail on a v1. Ahhh, granite.<\/center><\/p>\n


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\nPaul going for a repeat of The Dali, v8<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n


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\nPaul sending Downtrail Face, v6<\/em> on the Gateway Boulder<\/center><\/p>\n


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[We’ve been having technical difficulties here at apAdventures. Everything should be working now. I hope! Sorry for the delay in the summer road trip posts.] ———————————————————————————————————– Next stop on our 2016 summer roadtrip: alpine bouldering on Mt. Evans, Colorado. This was more of a test mission than a sending mission for us. Having last been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}