A SHORT POST from PIKES PEAK

This was such a cool place and was unfortunately left off the "returning home" entry,
so wanted to share a couple quick words and pics here.

The road up was extremely curvy and stretched on forever...switchback mountain! I understand they hold quite the internationally famous car "Race to the Top" every year. (Officially called the "Pikes Peak International Hill Climb")

During our stay in Colorado Springs we traveled up the road to Pikes Peak.
This is the highest elevation we've ever scaled. It was warm and summery at the base but frigidly cold and blowing like crazy at the 14,100' summit!

Rufus enjoyed this trip the most. It didn't occur to us how much he loves snow! (which he doesn't get much of a chance to see). He ran and ran like crazy and then slid around the slope like a baseball player sliding home. We freaked a couple times thinking he was just going to slide right off the mountain top!

The most surprising thing to me was the thin air. And I mean thin...like non existent! I walked maybe 100 feet and my world started spinning. I couldn't get enough oxygen and had to slowly make my way back to the truck and catch my breath. A very strange experience that put a whole new perspective for me on mountain climbers and NFL football games played at Mile High Stadium.

The day trip was incredible and highly recommended to anyone venturing near there.

That's it! Short and Sweet!

I'll leave you with Rufus. That reminds me...we met a young couple on one of our hikes that had saddled there small dog up with one of those new digital movie cameras. The camera view pointed out over his head and always showed his ears (which were cropped and pointed). It made me wonder if we shouldn't try something more creative with this blog. Like narrating from Rufus' point of view and include pics taken from his point of view on the world : ) I might just try that with a future entry and see how it feels...as always thanks for reading!