Note to Self

Girl Scout Leader, International Sales & Marketing Coordinator @ Twin Oaks Computing, Travel and Outdoor Enthusiast, Single Mom of 3 Teenagers

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On my way to Cameron Cone: I ❤️ #pikespeak #WildWanderer (at Pikes Peak - America's Mountain)

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Trying to get this love adopted today! He’s a 13 year old orange and white tabby named Hummus with an affection for fish flakes #adoptdontshop #volunteer #motherdaughtertime #cats #hsppr

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Meet Blueberry! She’s a Siamese mix kitten born without eyes. Today we’re giving her a bath and socializing her so she can be adopted! #cats #adoptdontshop #volunteer #motherdaughtertime

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Breaking trail #WildWanderer #Colorado

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Trail art #WildWanderer

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When your cat has thumbs these things happen #polydactylproblems #watchwest #cats #polydactyl

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#permitted (at Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles)

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Celebrating Emily’s Birthday!

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#westspanishpeak #WildWanderer #Colorado #13er

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Today’s hike #WildWanderer #bighornsheep #Colorado

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My New Year’s Resolution this year was to try more new things. My aim is to try something new at least once a week and blog about the experience. I’m currently working on one very per…

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Kayla is awesome!

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Pickle Shots

We usually have sandwiches on the second day of our Hamp Hut adventures for two reasons:  the girls like sandwiches, and sandwiches mean pickles.  One year the girls in Troop 931 decided to drink the pickle juice as shots after returning from our midnight hike, and it’s been a tradition ever since.  Now even Troop 2393’s joined in!

The girls do this over and over until the juice is all gone, sometimes taking up to 6 shots of pickle juice!

Check out Kayla in this video! 

So much fun!!!

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2017 was great, but 2018 has cookies!!!

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Pictures from Pikes Peak of the fireworks launched at midnight.  You can see the lights of Colorado Springs below.

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Counting Down to Midnight...

This has been a tradition for us for years!  We spend December 30 and 31 at Hamp Hut (Garden of the Gods), and at about 11:45pm on New Year’s Eve we take a short hike that has a great view of the fireworks launched off Pikes Peak at Midnight.    We’ve been extremely lucky, always having clear (but cold) weather for our midnight hikes.  This year, like last, we didn’t need flashlights:  the moon was almost full so we were able to hike by the moonlight!

Count down with us…

We know we have the best view in Colorado Springs, but what we didn’t know until later was we were in the only area that could actually see the fireworks:  it was too foggy in the rest of the Springs to see them.  Pictures just don’t do them justice!