A Fine Day

Yesterday we pushed pretty hard to stay ahead of a thunderstorm and didn't take many breaks.  We were successful.  Most of the day was in trees with a couple of passes thrown in.  We walked on tunnel trail for a few miles which used to be a train track in the late 1800s.  Today was more relaxed.  

The trail climbed up to Tincup Pass from which we had great views.  On the way up we saw 4 moose.  Two were standing in the road checking us out while the other two ate breakfast.  They finally moved on so we could continue on our way but what a treat!  We had a mid morning break at mirror lake campground and later at the top of another pass we had to stop because there was no wind or storm.  Just beautiful.  

We decided to take a lower alternate route through the Collegiate Peaks due to the high probability for afternoon storms.  The weather was nice all day though until evening.  We had a nice rainstorm the last few miles when we were tired.   It was a fine day.