Back again with more blogging from Colorado. So i might have mentioned this before but just in case I didn't, each day we are in Colorado we do an educational experience and an exploratory trip. This was the exploratory part of our third day in Colorado. The first picture is how we looked and felt after the day.
So the Garden of the Gods was a state park that was discovered by Zebulon Montgomery Pike on his way up to Pike's Peak. As they went through the garden there were large red rocks throughout the park and plenty of trees and other vegetation throughout the park. The
explorers who discovered the park felt that this place was a garden "fit for the Gods" and so the name Garden of the Gods was given to this park.
So overall we hiked a little over 10 miles and were out in the park for 4 hours.
While this was a lot of hiking we enjoyed exploring the park. A major reason we hiked so long and were out there so long is
because we were going off the paths marked and exploring the rocks and climbing all over them. As you can see in the
pictures we did stunts and other things on these rocks that
provided for great photo ops for Jen.
The funny part of the rock climbing was when we would get to the top we realized how high we were and it was scary at times. Also as we went through the park we would see people
professionally rock climbing up
the
larger structures and it was
crazy to see them dangling hundreds of feet above the ground.
We walked through a ma
jority of the park and saw many
of the major rocks structures throughout the park. Some of the structures we saw were the Siamese Twins, Balance Rock, and Giant Red Rock.
Overall this park was gorgeous and my words do no do the beauty of this park justice. If you are ever in the Colorado Springs area I would say that Garden of the Gods is a good idea of a place to stop.
After the garden we went to a
mexican restaurant called Amanda Fonda and the food and service was great. After a long day of hiking and exploring we
enjoyed a good meal ad sat
around the table and talked and shared stories until ti was time to go. The next day we went to the Air Force Academy in the morning and then went to a train that took us up Pike's Peak. I look forward to sharing Day 4 with you until then, see ya!
Back again with more blogging from Colorado. So i might have mentioned this before but just in case I didn't, each day we are in Colorado we do an educational experience and an exploratory trip. This was the exploratory part of our third day in Colorado. The first picture is how we looked and felt after the day.
So the Garden of the Gods was a state park that was discovered by Zebulon Montgomery Pike on his way up to Pike's Peak. As they went through the garden there were large red rocks throughout the park and plenty of trees and other vegetation throughout the park. The explorers who discovered the park felt that this place was a garden "fit for the Gods" and so the name Garden of the Gods was given to this park.
So overall we hiked a little over 10 miles and were out in the park for 4 hours. While this was a lot of hiking we enjoyed exploring the park. A major reason we hiked so long and were out there so long is because we were going off the paths marked and exploring the rocks and climbing all over them. As you can see in the pictures we did stunts and other things on these rocks that provided for great photo ops for Jen.
The funny part of the rock climbing was when we would get to the top we realized how high we were and it was scary at times. Also as we went through the park we would see people professionally rock climbing up the larger structures and it was crazy to see them dangling hundreds of feet above the ground.
We walked through a majority of the park and saw many of the major rocks structures throughout the park. Some of the structures we saw were the Siamese Twins, Balance Rock, and Giant Red Rock. Overall this park was gorgeous and my words do no do the beauty of this park justice. If you are ever in the Colorado Springs area I would say that Garden of the Gods is a good idea of a place to stop.
After the garden we went to a mexican restaurant called Amanda Fonda and the food and service was great. After a long day of hiking and exploring we enjoyed a good meal ad sat around the table and talked and shared stories until ti was time to go. The next day we went to the Air Force Academy in the morning and then went to a train that took us up Pike's Peak. I look forward to sharing Day 4 with you until then, see ya!
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