Hiking (Pictures Below)

So, we decided to go hiking today - rather than kayaking. We did a 7.5 mile loop in RMNP that took about 5 hours. We tried doing the same hike in May but there was too much snow! Despite being mid-July we were still able to touch some snow sitting next to the trail. We saw a couple deer from the car, trout, some chipmunks and that was about it. We were sucked dry by swarms of mosquitoes, good thing we had long sleeve shirts in our backpacks. Deet would have been sweet. Our dogs are howling, we hate life, hiking sucks.....we're sissies. We'll probably go again next weekend.