Hiking in February

Went for a hike at Chautauqua Park on Sunday. This mountain park with TONS of trails is only a block and a half from my house. Definitely need to start taking advantage of that more often. It was about 58 degrees...perfect hiking weather! Here's some pics:

The view of the Flatirons from my driveway

My house. For some reason my landlord decided it would be a good idea to fill our front yard with stones. Xeriscaping?

The Flatirons from the end of my street

Yummy restaurant The Chautauqua Dining Hall and the Flatirons

I did the McClintock Trail

It was pretty snowy, muddy, and slippery in some spots...

The view back down to Boulder

Hopefully by this time next year I will have climbed either the one on the left or the one in the middle!

This part of the trail was really pretty

View of Baseline Lake (?) and some cool houses on the hill.

Funky Boulder architecture

Some sort of black-headed blue jay.


In other news, I got a promotion, a bonus, AND a raise the other day! Yay! Now I'm the SENIOR admin assistant. Not that there is any junior admins, but whatever. So I booked a flight for late April to go visit Maia and celebrate. Woohoo! I definitely need a vacation. Oh, and I'm also taking a rock climbing class over the next month. Definitely looking forward to that. I'll try to get some pics of me climbing.