http://www.jandjos.com Welcome to J and Jo's website! Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:46:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Joscelyn and I had a very rare day off together this Sunday.  We took advantage of it!!  We woke up at 5am to drive to Rocky Mountain National Park.  At 7:15am we were at the Bear Lake TH on a beautiful 45 degree morning.  [singlepic=442,320,240,,]The planned hike was to climb from the ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/06/28/flattop-hallett-otis/ [singlepic=421,320,240,,]I had the day off today and Joscelyn was working.  After putting 20 miles on some Boulder singletrack in the hot afternoon, I decided to go watch the Boulder STXC races.  These races are held every Wednesday night through the summer.  It's held on a portion of the CU campus where ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/06/24/boulder-stxc-624/ [singlepic=391,320,240,,]What an event!  I got Joscelyn to the starting line at 6:30am for here start time of 7:15am.  After I dropped her off, I found a place to park the car and get my bike set for this adventure.  I went to the first mile marker to set up camp ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/05/25/bolder-boulder-09/ [singlepic=377,320,240,,]We finally had a day off together so we decided to have a "date day." We set out alarms for somewhat of an early morning(7am on a day off is early), stopped by McDonalds for ice coffees, and headed to Estes Park for a hike in Rocky Mountain National Park. ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/05/19/tuesday-hike/ [singlepic=364,320,240,,]Our porch is the perfect place to catch a sunset almost any evening of the week. I'm usually good about taking time to enjoy watching the sun go down but if I'm busy J will call me on his way home from work to tell me to take a look. ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/05/09/rocky-mountain-sunsets/ [singlepic=351,320,240,,]The beginning of May brought warm temperatures and signs of spring. J had to work over the weekend so I headed to Pearl Street in Boulder to take some flower pictures. The tulips were in full bloom and absolutely gorgeous. I was enjoying a coffee and taking some pics when ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/05/02/pearl-st-tulips/ [singlepic=343,320,240,,]We finally had a day off together so we decided to make the most of a warm sunny day. We went to the open space trail system right in our backyard for an 18 mile bike ride. I felt good starting out but by the time the ride was over I ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/04/24/riden-boulder/ [singlepic=331,320,240,,]We left our apartment Saturday night after I got off of work.  The night before I70 was shut down due to snow from Golden to the Eisenhower Tunnel.  Jos and I kept an eye on the conditions all day prior to leaving and it seamed to be getting better as ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/04/19/msc-1-rabbit-valley-rally/ [singlepic=312,320,240,,]With limited snow accumulation since we arrived in Colorado and temperatures in the seventy's this past weekend the blizzard came as a big shock to the system. We got almost two feet of snow in a twenty-four hour period and had wind gusts that shut down most of the interstates ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/03/27/march-09-blizzard/ [singlepic=297,320,240,,]Rocky Mountain National Park has many hikes that we would like to tackle so we picked one for a Saturday trip and though we ran into a considerable amount of snow we made the 9.2 mile round trip hike with no snow shoes. The hike got a little scary when ... http://www.jandjos.com/2009/02/28/fern-lake/