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Pi Day Friday Float About
March 2008
Estes Park , CO
posted by emptycloud
Pi Day Friday Float About
Well another Friday and another solo trek for me. This one is Pi day, 3.14 and Albert Einstein’s Birthday so I chose to take a hike in his honor. Again to RMNP, this time up Glacier Gorge Trail to Alberta Falls. Only a mile up and another back but this one was done in a substantial snow storm. There was a fresh blanket of overnight snow everywhere. I hit the trail at one o’clock and there were a couple inches of new powder from the morning flurries on the trail. Snow shoes were in order today and the snow increased to a pretty hefty rate as I headed out. The temperature was 50 when I left Longmont, 38 when I hit Estes Park and 25 here at the trail, with wind gusts from 0 to 10 mph. The sound of snow falling through the trees and blowing on the wind has a way of embracing you in a shroud of tingling, hissing whispers.
The hike itself was pretty uneventful but also full of wonder. Shoeing on 3 to 4 feet of packed trail snow shrunk the boulders that in spring time will tower over the trail. They were all capped with fresh snow hats and bonnets.
Instead of crossing on the planks of wooden bridges spanning creeks, the snow pack raised my feet to the level of the guard rails sitting just above the snowline. When I got to Boulder Brook and the falls they were buried so deep you had to strain real hard to hear the gurgling. The falls were invisible, they had turned into just another slope of white powder. I stopped to drink in the sights and sounds and took a few snapshots before heading back down. I was back to the truck in about an hour and a half and had to dump a big pile of fresh snow off the top of my pack. In less than a miles drive I was out of the storm and under blue skies so I shot a few more pictures by the stream and drove through the park seeing elk, deer and a coyote hunting along the river bank. Nature once again had filled my tank with AWE.
And Happy Birthday to Albert E. pretty synchronous B'day and not an accident I'm sure..........
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success and luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
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