Trip: Boulder to Albuquerque over 4 Days

Pacific Northwest Camping Trip: 1800+ Miles over 16 days
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Flew into San Francisco and worked my way up the coast to Seattle with some good Penn State / Colorado friends. Climbed Mt. Shasta and Mt. Rainer, visited Crater Lake and Olympic Nat Parks as well as Lava Tubes Nat Monument, went to Deschutes, Rogue and Widner breweries, spent time in Eugene, Portland and Seattle, and visited the engineering marvels of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Boeing 747 & 777 assembly lines.

Climbing a crack on shelf road

Amanda rocking a tough climb

Basecamp for a good portion of the day

It was one heck of a cold night, the water froze solid

At Great Sand Dunes National Park, the sand was hot to step on but ice cold an inch below the surface

Surfs up!

Sand boarding

Preping Thanksgiving lunch / dinner

First course

Dessert after making our way to a campsite in Taos

Hot Springs along the river, 500 feet from the campsite

Amazing formations at Tent Rocks

Nice images in the drive to Albuquerque (Ben pic)

Climbing the Sandia Mountains, Brian is leading the pack

A quick picture before running ~8 miles down to the car

Running, you can see where we just were 40 minutes prior