A Great Weekend in Leadville

For the month of August I've rented a house in Leadville, CO. It's located about 20 minutes outside of town in a remote area with great views of the Mt. Massive and Mt. Albert, two of the highest Mt's in CO and the USA. On Friday afternoon I picked up the in laws and Sadie for a fun filled weekend. We arrived on Friday later afternoon, after navigating some traffic on Interstate 70. We grabbed dinner at Zicchatella's and then went back to the house, where we met up with Tim and Amy.

At about 11PM we arrive in Twin Lakes where Tim and I proceeded to run through the night to Fish Hatchery, well almost, before Amy picked us up with a mile or so to go at 3:30AM. We managed to get lost in the woods, it rained on us for a bit, but nothing too bad and the temps dropped into the mid 40's....this was a bummer. The track between TL and FH is a very long and difficult part of the course, mostly because of the time of night that you pass through this area...it only seems to go on forever.



After getting in at 4AM I managed to get in 4 hours of sleep and got up at 8AM to make breakfast for everybody....eggs, toast, hash browns and juice. It was pretty darn good after running 15 miles through the night. Later that morning we traveled to Twin Lakes to do some sight seeing and take some pictures. We then went on to Buena Vista and St Elmo's ghost town, before heading back into Leadville to do some shopping and grab dinner at the TN Pass Cafe in town. Completely exhausted we made it back to the house around 8PM and crashed after watching a movie with Sadie....A Series of Unfortunate Incidents.



On Sunday morning we got up and had a nice breakfast, hung out at the house till about 9AM and then left to drop off Sadie and Papa at the Mega Mountain Magic stables just outside of town. They got in a 2.5 hour trail ride while Grandma and I went to Turquoise Lake and took some cool pics, hit the Safeway for lunch and planned out a train ride through the mountain side of Leadville. It was a great day that ended with Sadie catching 6 or 7 nice rainbow trout in a lake near the house....really quite unbelievable. We got to bed at 10PM only to get out of bed at 4:20AM so we could beat the traffic and get everyone to the airport. It was a really nice weekend..See the pics.