Favorite Place: Colorado

I love being outdoors so choosing one from many places was really difficult, but I decided on the Colorado. Whether it is winter time or summertime you can find me in the mountains, hiking, skiing or fishing.
There is something so surreal about it being dead quiet in the mountains that you can not really find many other places. One of my favorite places in Colorado is Mount Elbert which is the highest mountain found in the Colorado with an elevation of 14,440 ft.
(Pictured above is Mount Elbert Picture Source: proactiveoutside - WordPress.com)

This mountain is classified as a "Fourteener" Which is one of 53 mountains in Colorado that rise above 14,000 feet in elevation. All fourteeners have trails that you can hike that take most of the day, I have been able to do three fourteeners so far and look forward to doing many more.

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  1. Laura GibbsJanuary 16, 2019 at 1:12 PM

    There are SO MANY Colorado posts this semester, Drew! I need to go through and tag them so that you all can connect as a Colorado fandom. And of course in this class, you could do a Storybook based on stories from Colorado or about the mountains of the American West in general. So many beautiful mountains, so many beautiful stories! :-)

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  2. SpencerKunzJanuary 16, 2019 at 1:13 PM

    Hey, Drew!

    What a beautiful picture. For a guy who loves to fish and spend time outdoors as much as you do, Colorado sounds like the perfect place to be. I'd also really like to hike a fourteener at some point -- it's something on my bucket list. I have a number of friends who are really into hiking/mountaineering and they've gotten me interested in it as well. Maybe I can also climb Mount Elbert eventually!

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