Colorado

Eric and Ashlyn took off for a week to explore Colorado. First stop was the Colorado School of Mines, the most renowned school for engineering. 

Second stop was Canon City and the Royal Gorge River, in which they went white water rafting down Class 4+ rapids.

 

Their next adventure was climbing Humboldt Peak, soaring above 14,000 ft. The trail was vaguely marked, so their decent was elongated after venturing far off the path. Additionally, they battled snow, hail, rain, wind, thunder, and lightning along their climb. After covering 10+ miles in 10 hours, as well as camping out in the back of their rental car for two nights, they were beyond exhausted.

Before heading home, they tackled an extremely strenuous 2,000 ft climb up the Manitou Incline and finished with a relaxing train ride up to the top of Pike's Peak.