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weekend at Rocky Mountain National Park

weekend of 30, October 31 and November 1:

We have used this weekend for three days exploring the Rocky Mountain National Park, north of Denver, Colorado. After classes Thierry Friday noon, we prepared our bags and headed to San Antonio airport 15 minutes from home. Our plane was at 17:30 and we were traveling with the company "Southwest." A U.S. airline that attractive rates (like Ryanair from us). What is very interesting because here must be at least 5 hours car to a change of scenery and landscapes. States here are immense and include Texas (which is an area as large as France), so the plane is really the only way to travel a bit around the country.

We arrived at 19h at the Denver airport. After retrieving our rental car (a Kia again) we headed to our hotel the "Tyrol Mountain Inn at 1h30 in the town of Estes Park. The city is located east of the Rocky Mountain park at an altitude of 7522 feet (2300m).

Our hotel was very cute all wood and the room was huge with two queen beds.

After a good night's sleep, head for the "visitor center" at the entrance to the park for information on touring to do and the best views . The park is huge (about 1,000 km ²), the highest peak is "Longs Peak, which rises to 4346m. The park has only two roads that are partially closed now because there is already snow and more than 500km of trails. We started our Saturday morning visit to the park by car to enjoy the view. After a first stop in Alluvial Fan where we could see a beautiful river and a waterfall, we took the road of "Trail Ridge Road. Alas it was closed after a few kilometers because of the snow but could still climb high enough to get a great view over much of the park.

We then fell back towards "Sprague Lake" to see our first lake but also for picnics. Before reaching the lake we have a halt to "Moraine Park to once again admire the view.

"Sprague Lake" was really beautiful with a view of snowy mountains. We have come full circle (about 1.5 km) on foot this time and we met a wedding in the U.S. celebrated on the lake!

We also cross full of small animals like squirrels, puppets and a small woodpecker spirit to kill a tree trunk. After this short tour we took the road to "Bear Lake" to the south to attack the real thing. "Bear Lake" is situated at an altitude of 2892m, we parked the car started our hike around the lake and then towards the next three. A journey that ultimately we will have to 7km (round trip) and reach an altitude of about 3300m. I confess that the evening we were happy to go to bed!

Back to "Bear Lake" the trail around the lake was already partly covered with snow on some passage in the shade and allowed us to have a great view.

After the tour of the lake, we began our ascent to the other three. And the more we mounted, there was more snow. It is at this moment that we regret coming to basketball what happiness to walk with soaked socks! Finally Thierry especially because mine were completely dry.

Lake First met: Nymph Lake. The smallest of the three and totally frozen, but we have not tried skating on it even if there was a good layer of ice.

Second Lake: Dream Lake. With the view of the top of Hallett Peak, which rises to 3875m and on our next destination at the foot of the mountain.

Third Lake Emerald Lake. As you can see the sun had just gone behind the mountains and was time to descend into the valley.

On Sunday, we started a trek north of the city to go to the top of the Twin Owls and have a city view and the Rockies. The wind had risen and we were glad to have brought our gloves and our hats.

After 2 hours of hiking we thought it might be better to visit the rest of the park by car. Heading south from the city to Lily Lake. As you can see it was not very hot!

Then to the far southeast of the park to Wild Basin to see the waterfalls. At the trailhead, a sign saying "Beware the Bears frequent this place" with the image of a car smashed by a bear had smelled food. Finally we do not stay very long ...

After brief stint at Wild Basin, we decided to go shopping and visit the town of Estes Park this Halloween day. We were surprised by the popularity of this festival, which among us is much less celebrated. Here everyone was dressed very unusually merchants closed their shop in 17h and were installed in front of their door bowls filled with candy for children who began their tour. But we were delayed by a herd of deer that passed that way ... and that which landed on the Gulf of town ...

Monday morning we returned to Denver and took advantage of the day to visit the city since we had been at 19:30. The center was typical of American cities: skyscrapers and perpendicular streets one way. We went up the 16th street is the street starts from the city to get to the "Capitol" before ending our afternoon in a city park: City Park where the museum of natural history of the city.