Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Camping in Estes

Well, last weekend we had another successful camping trip. We originally wanted to camp in Rocky Mountain National Park but it turns out you have to show up at like 5 am to get a camping spot so we were able to find a back roads spot 10 miles outside Estes Park. It was a beautiful spot and the weather was much warmer than the last camping trip!!! On Saturday we drove back into the park and did a hike that follows a bunch of lakes and streams that connect the lakes (see pics below).

When we stopped at the sign above there were SO many squirells. Had to take a picture!

Lake #1- Nymph Lake, it had lots of lilly pads in it!


Nymph lake is to our left and the Rockies right behind us.

One of the streams connecting Nymph to Dream Lake.

A little farther up the same fall.

Lake #2- Dream Lake

Again, there was a lot of snow! We were sliding all over to make the timed picture!


The final lake! It was beautiful- It is called Emerald lake. If you look closely you can see three waterfalls coming down off the mountain.

BEST of all! On the way home we saw a big horned sheep!!!

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