Steamboat Springs, Colorado

We stopped in Steamboat Springs for a few days, a ski town in the winter, but just a fun outdoors place in the summer. For those non-skiers, the green stripes running down the mountain are the ski runs.


The weather, as is typical for most of Colorado in the summer, was stupendous. Although it rained every day we where there, the storms are short and the sun returns.


We took a hike, with friends, to view the Fish Creek Falls....


which look like this from a distance....


and like this up close......


and see, we really were there!!!


We also took a ride on the Alpine Sleds. The runs drop for thousands of feet and the sleds can attain speeds in excess to 120 mph.........oppps, gross exaggeration, but it sounds much more exciting my way.


We also saw rafters.......


kayakers.......


and fly fishermen......

and the best part of seeing all these outdoor ethusiats in action was that we did it from the patio of a micro-brewery while drinking beer and eating nachos. That probably has something to do with the every increasing size of my waist.