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Poudre River Flood

Britton — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:29:44 +0000

They have some roads closed off on the north side of town. The Poudre River is over its banks in areas due to the melting snow in the mountains and recent rain. The trail is only a few miles away so Cassie and I figured we would jump on our bikes and see if we could get into trouble.

East meets west, but the road is Closed.

We actually didn’t encounter too much resistance to jump the signs and get a closer look. This is a small ditch, and it took out the trail completely.

Like I said, it used to be a small ditch.

You can see where its widening out

There are all kinds of news reports going on talking about the flooding. Its only a few miles from our house too! But all is dry here, so all in all a nice night to lay in the grass and watch the chickens and pets in the lawn.

Writing this post for LifeTransPlanet in the yard!

Poudre River Mishawaka Reggae Music Festival

Cassie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:06:36 +0000

After our exciting hiking and biking, we went down the road to Mishawaka for their 5th Annual Reggae Music Festival. We had never been to a concert there but had driven by enough times to know that it is a hippie hang out and we were interested in finding out what it was like. From the road it doesn’t look like much, but there are always a lot of motorcycles and cars pulled off to the side. When we walked in, it was apparent why it is such a cool and popular hang out. The stage is about 5 feet from the Poudre River!

They have an outside seating area where you can have food and drink, or you can stand right in front of the band. A lot of people were playing hacky-sack and dancing to the different reggae bands. There were a lot of people with dreadlocks and Jamaican colored outfits.

We also saw quite a few river rafters floating down who would pull off to the side of the river to sit, watch and listen to the bands before floating away. It was a neat experience. Even though Mishawaka is a much smaller venue, I’d have to rank it up there with Red Rocks in terms of the cool factor.

One of the various bands with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop

River Rafters Near the Mish

To the Right you can see the River

Hiking and Biking up the Poudre

Cassie — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:19:22 +0000

Yesterday Britton and I met up with our friends Matt and Jamie to go hiking (Jamie and I) and mountain biking (Britton and Matt) up the Poudre River Canyon before we went to the Mishawaka reggae music festival. Colorado is so pretty in the mountains in the summer. Jamie and I hiked up a trail at Young Gulch and saw a variety of things including butterflies, fields of purple flowers, bees pollinating flowers AND a rattlesnake.

That was really exciting and scary. He was all coiled up, shaking his rattle and ready to strike. I wanted to get a closer picture, but didn’t want to get too close. We had to warn all the people with off-leash dogs. She and I also walked up to Mishawaka as we were waiting for Britton and Matt to get done biking. We saw a dead bat and were offered to get picked up by a couple of guys on motorcycles. We said we weren’t too good at hitch hiking and that we’d just walk. Here are a few pictures:

Britton and Matt Mountain Biking

Jamie and Me, Hiking

Fields of Flowers

Butterfly on a flower

Dead bat by the side of the road

Rattlesnake in the Grass

This rattlesnake is so well camouflaged that I had to circle it to show you where it is in the grass. Unfortunately, all I have to work with is MSPaint on this laptop, so it looks like a little kid wrote this!