• Friday Flashback

    Friday Flashback

     When I was 22, Ivan (my then boyfriend) and I headed west…to Denver, Colorado and the Rocky Mountains.  Our dream….find a place to live….find a decent job….and backpack the Rockies.  We found a little apartment that was a great price….we were both employed within a week after arriving…and we backpacked the Rockies….many, many times.  One of our favorite places was above Nederland, Colorado in the Arapaho National Forest…Indian Peaks Wilderness area.  We would pack up the blazer, head up there very early in the morning and hike to one of the most beautiful and secluded areas you have ever seen…a place where we rarely saw another camper on the trail.  The packs were heavy, the trail was a long one…it took…