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The Colorado National Monument

Posted by Jason Hussong on Sunday, March 28, 2010,
My adventures to and from Las Vegas for my birthday took me to a great many interesting and wonderful places. I've been considering how I should write about it all as I saw and did so many things that it's really quite impossible to put it down in one post unless I want it to be the length of a book. And, as a matter of fact, many volumes of books have been written about where I've gone, combined and singularly, that I think it really is only fair to each place, as well as to the reader, to t...

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Driving the Trail Ridge

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
Since I moved to Colorado nine years ago, almost to the day, I've wanted to drive Trail Ridge Road, the highest continual road in the country at a maximum elevation of 12,183 feet. And finally, today, I did just that.

It was a long day with a lot of driving, but the views on Trail Ridge Road and the hikes we went on in Rocky Mountain National Park made up for all of the time in the car, much of which was raining anyway. We were sprinkled on a bit at the end of our first hike to Albert...

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