St. Mary's Glacier

For awhile now Ben has been wanting to go to St. Mary's Glacier. Since he has a few days off from work this week, we decided to head up and give it a shot.

Before the hike there was a little ghost town so we went and toured the houses:

 Then we started on the hike:

 I told Ben if we were going on a hike, then he had to carry the baby:

 Here you can get a slight taste of how steep the climb is. The whole way up all I could think was, "Why do Coloradans think this is fun? First, we start at 10,000 feet so we already can not breathe, and then we decide to climb another couple thousand feet in a mere 3/4 of a mile? WHY do we do this?!?"

 Well, this is why:

And, since we are really trying to win "best family photo of the millennium" here is another gem for our collection:

 I had to bribe Claire to get her to look at the camera for this picture:

 Audra begged me to let her go on this log. I put her on (she is about 3 feet in the air) and she freaked out she was so scared:

 Ben took Audra to go touch the snow on the glacier. Nobody else went except them, and apparently Audra cried the whole time because she missed her Mommy:

The girls were real troopers and did great on the hike, especially compared to our last hiking attempt. And, we stopped at Beau Jo's on the way home- what could be better? All in all, it was a great day.