1 [[!meta title="Colorado"]]
2 [[!meta date="2008-08-07 02:52:12"]]
4 Oh, I should explain the lack of postings over the last two weeks.
5 During the first part, I was developing some explanatory graphs to
6 test my tension balancing implementation (fun, fun :p), and during the
7 second part, I was hanging out with my Mom, Aunt, sister, and neice in
8 Estes Park, CO. Mom moved out there a few years back, and it's a very
9 nice place to go visit.
11 The cinematic highlight was a 2-day 1-night hike in [Rocky Mountain
12 National Park][RMNP]. I stayed in [Hayden Gorge][HG], and this was my
13 first explicit-bushwhacking trip. It's maybe 8 miles in from Bear
14 Lake, which took me around 11 hours, and 3 miles out to Trail Ridge
15 Road which took about 10 hours :p. Take a look at [this deceptively
16 non-topographic map][map]. The hike up to Trail Ridge from the bottom
17 of Forest Canyon is up a mile in a mile, and it's about a third each
18 of pushing through dense forest, bouldering, and open hiking. Took me
19 about 7 hours, and I ripped the sleeve off my shirt :p. Had a good
22 Besides hiking, I cooked with Mom, talked about people's views on
23 homosexuality with my sister, defended my stuff from my niece, hung
24 out with my Aunt and the dogs, and learned a lot of family history :).
27 [RMNP]: http://www.nps.gov/romo
28 [HG]: http://tremily.us/gallery/hayden_gorge/145-campsite-dot/
29 [map]: http://www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/upload/detailedmapa.pdf