rocky mountain national park

Hello everyone, To honor my dad's memory, who recently passed away, I spent the day driving up to, then snowshoeing around Rocky Mountain NP-retracing part of a family vacation I took with him, his wife, and my brother many years ago. The vacation was a week long road trip throughout Colorado...

Another day trip to Rocky Mountain NP. I'll keep this one short, since about the first 50% overlaps with my Sky Pond report from last week and conditions were substantially similar. In the To Do in 2023 post I connected with @RyanP who has some similar winter goals this year and he invited me...

As part of my resolve to get out for more day hikes locally, I'm going to try to post a few more trip reports. We'll see if I can keep it up. (Plus, @scatman does it and I think he's basically who I want to be when I grow up.) Decided to take this past Saturday and do a little winter hiking in...

This trip had become something of a backpacking white whale for me. I'd been eager to try winter backpacking and Rocky Mountain NP seemed a safe-ish destination for a first-timer. Only a couple hours from home, plenty of people milling about within a few hours of pretty much any spot I'd want...

Hey, this is my trip report from the Continental Divide Loop in RMNP in September 2017. Things didn't go as well as planned but it was still a fun time. The original plan was to add a trip off trail up to Timber Lake on the third day but we lost the old trail and the terrain and weather proved...

8/17-19/2015 Back in June I had driven through Rocky Mountain National Park and been far more amazed than I had anticipated. It made me yearn for more. Some odd scheduling allowed me a four day weekend and finding ROMO’s backcountry webpage very user friendly, I secured a permit to backpack...