It was a long day. We made it to Copper and skied for a couple hours. It was slush all over. Not the greatest skiing conditions but we made due… by playing in the Woodward Kidz Park with the six year old Bro-Bras!

My ski boots made my feet hurt yet again so I took it pretty easy. Ryan on the other hand dropped his first cliff, it was small one, but you have to start somewhere. We left Copper after basking in the sun in some big lawn chairs. It was nice – the sun felt good.

We hit the road towards Glenwood Springs but had a sudden impulse to check out a cave near Eagle CO. After reading through our Caves of Colorado book and a website on my phone we thought we knew the way to Fulford Cave…but it took some work. After getting to Eagle it took us about an hour to get to Yeoman Park. (which isn’t even where the cave is located) The drive through the mountains to Yeoman Park was beautiful.

Aspens lined the dirt road and a large creek ran along with beaver dams scattered throughout. Once we discovered the snow was too deep we had to turn back because there was not access to the cave at this time. We declared to come back in the summer months once the snow has subsided.
We headed back down the winding road to eagle and beyond (Glenwood Springs). Upon arriving into Glenwood Springs we could see all the pools of steaming water (the hot springs) We bypassed them for the moment. We went over to the main street and strolled up and down like tourists looking for a place to eat. We ended up at an Italian restaurant called ( agh crap we forgot name) but lucky for them because the service was ungodly slow and the food was average, but oh well we were hungry. After this we headed out to our camp ground.

At the campground we hurriedly moved our gear from the back to the front seats as the rain started to fall. We made our bed which resembled a 2 person wide bunk bed with about 2 feet of clearance between the bed and roof of the car. We stayed up for a bit working on the blog and talking about tomorrow We Finally dosed off and awoke several times during the night because of the pounding rain or fierce winds.

In the morning we did our same routine again-  we moved gear into the back again and set off for the nearest coffee shop where we set up our operations to plan our days activities. After much discussion we finally decided to attempt Hubbard Cave about 13 miles away. Then we plan to visit some hot spring later tonight. Ok we are off– More later