This was our third summertime trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and we had a great time as always. We did a couple of hikes, a bike ride, and two amazing tubing trips down the Yampa river. Check out all my photos below. Kim took a few photo sets too: one, two, three, and four.
A shot from our Mad Creek hike.
|
GPS trail from our Mad Creek hike, but I forgot to give it a couple minutes to get a location lock at the start of the hike (since moving the phone from PA to CO), so it's off by a bit at the beginning.
|
Tubing on the Yampa River. This was so awesome that we did it twice in one week.
|
Tubing on the Yampa River. Smiles all around.
|
This is the rapids by 13th street, at the northwest end of town. There's also a small waterfall on the rocks in the shadows.
|
Sitting on a rock in the middle of the Yampa, taking a break from tubing.
|
Getting out and into the water, at a deep spot.
|
I liked the way this one turned out. Not bad for a disposable waterproof camera.
|
Still tubing.
|
You'll have to check out the full-size version of this one to see us, but here we are floating through the rapids near 13th street. Kim's mom took this photo from the bridge.
|
Looking downstream at the Yampa, and the Sleeping Giant in the distance, from the James Brown Soul Center of the Universe Bridge.
|
The start of our Fish Creek Falls hike. Only 5 miles to Long Lake! We can totally do this. Or not.
|
An especially nice section of trail along the Fish Creek Falls hike.
|
Looking back down into the valley on our Fish Creek Falls hike.
|
More beautiful surroundings along the Fish Creek Falls hike.
|
(video)Kim and Heidi scaling a bit of a huge rock face during the Fish Creek Falls hike.
|
(video)Heidi coming down off a huge and pretty steep rock face, during our Fish Creek Falls hike.
|
Huge rock face along the Fish Creek Falls hike.
|
That's the trail in the lower-right corner of the photo.
|
A giant rock slide on the opposite side of the valley.
|
Another shot looking back down into the valley.
|
The first waterfall on the upper section of the trail.
|
(video)The waterfall and some water pools below it.
|
Another view of the first waterfall on the upper section of the Fish Creek Falls trail.
|
(video)Heidi getting down into the water. I wanted to do the same thing, but the day wasn't very warm.
|
|
This map near the parking area shows the huge elevation gain on the trail up to Long Lake.
|
This is the GPS trail of our route. Sadly, we didn't even make it halfway to Long Lake. We hiked about 1500 vertical feet (from 7473'-9027') over about 2.5 miles in 2 hours, at which point it was getting kind of late and a bit rainy, so we turned around, for a total of 5 miles in 4 hours.
|