Hi everyone, welcome to the Mike's Hikes pages! --Mike
Hi!
This page brings back memories. I went to RMNP in June 95. Had a great time and wish I were back there. Thanks for your hard work.
Mike Stewart Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Nice pictures. I see we are kindred wandering souls. You should try the Cascades and Olympics sometime.
D. Hicks--Seattle
What a wonderful area to vacation! Thanks for the memories! J. S. Johns, scsga@flash.net
Thank you for doing this great web site! L. Maloney, Estes Park lmaloney@frii.com
Great page. Although I prefer the whites, I'm jealous of your experiences in the Rockies. I gotta get one of those digital cameras! Brian Newkirk, Concord, MA
I love to see all the neat adventures you have had around the world and right here in my back yard almost. Thanks for the enlightenment! CYNDI PETERSON UT.
Here I sit in the office at 9:30 cdt on a Tuesday night wishing I was in the wilderness. Next best thing: cyberhike with Mike. Cool.
Hello from Texas! My name is Jon Schwartz and I am a student at the University of North Texas, and I am majoring in Recreation -Program Management. I enjoy outdoor education and adventure very much. I recently returned from a two week backcountry hiking, backpacking, leadership course on outdoor education in the beautiful land of Alaska. The trip was based out of Denali National Park and we covered roughly Fifty miles of triled and untrialed terrain. The program was run in conjunction with the Wilderness Education Association (WEA) and was very enjoyable. I have a great interest in working in an outdoor environment and would appreciate any comments or just advice I could get from the experts. Please feel free to contact me at my E-mail address at Jonboy@coes.coe.unt.edu Thanks for the time, Jon.
Dave and Marylou Canavan will be there in Aug of 97 to celebrate 25th anniversary. We are veteran hikers and appreciate your web page. Our email address is. dpc@capital.net thank you for your time.
Hey mike You should go to the BWCA (Minnesota) sometime, it's the most beautiful place on earth.
"You just walk!" Right. Like my hike. "You just walk!" <g> denny@bflrc.com
Mike is the coolest!!!!!!!! Brian Graves graves@salsgiver.com
This is great to see! RMNP is one of my favorite places. I've spent several weeks camping in the area with family, and two different backpack trips in the Long's Peak area. You have some very good pictures of the area. Thanks- Jay from Stillwater, Ok.
4 Dec 1996
10:54:03
Great page! I also love to hike, and have visited RMNP many times. The first time was in the mid sixty's. The summer of 95, I took my friend Jeff, age 63, to hike there. He was so impressed that we returned July of 96. We stayed at Morraine campground and hiked 6 out of 7 days, (one day we went horseback riding for 4 hours). The night before we checked into RMNP, we camped in the Brainard Rec. Area (elev. 10,500). We took an afternoon hike up the Beaver Creek trail to Mount Audubon trail. It was mid July and there were still many snowdrifts across the trail. In the morning before leaving for RMNP, we hiked around Long Lake and took some awesome photos of the wild flowers. It was so beautiful; it brought a tear to my eye. If you ever hiked in the Indian Peaks Wilderness area, would you please enter your hikes into your hiking page. I would like to know about some good day hikes perferrably loops or one way hikes where you can park your car and hitch a ride to the trailhead and hike back down to your parked car.We will be in the Rocky Mountains again next summer. Also, many years ago, when my children were pre teen we took a ranger lend hike which started at the alpine visitor center and ended at Poudre Lake. Because of funding they no longer offer this hike. It was great for small children because it was all downhill and they could experience the tundra and the subalpine. I would like to take this trail again but I do not know if the trail is maintained or is closed.
Carol Dolan, carolsplantcare@webtv.net
Mike,
Thanks for the info. I will be flying to Denver tonight and will be in Estes Park on Monday for a week of backcountry.
Thanks again.
Hi, nice page and great pics. I found your page by following a link from the Estes Park Page. If it's okay with you, I'd like to put a link from my page to yours. In my Rocky Mtn Park section of my page, I'm linking some of the places I mention to your pictures. Visit me at http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/3233
Thanks so much for the great memories. I used to spend every summer in Estes when I was a student at U of Nebraska. We rented a trailer at Dick's Rock Museum! Now I live in New York and work at New York University. Haven't been there in years but hope to get there this summer.
I enjoyed surfing your pages ...
Pierre Chénier Montréal, Québec
Great web site! Brings back great memories!
J Wallace wallace@midamer.net
Mike, I've got my pics up. Working on splitting my RMNP page into seperate trail heads. Stop in http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/3233 Bob the Beerhunter. Estes has added my page to their links.
12/26/96
9:19:45 PM
Hi,
Great link with all of the info about the RMNP hikes Mike! I am adding your site to the Texins Outdoor Club web page as well as my "Wilderness Wanderer's" home page. My web site is http://www.metronet.com/~mdmastin and the Texins Outdoor Club web site is located at http://www.metronet.com/~mdmastin/texins1.html.
Best regards,
Mike Mastin President Texins Outdoor Club mdmastin@metronet.com
12/27/96
9:57:05 PM
Mike, thanks to you and Lee for the rememberances of home. I really appreciate it. Back in"60 or 61 I actually acted like I was an athlete and took on Long's Peak 23 times 1 summer. As you know, that is rushing it. But I had a secret only us Locals new about...Cheers and Thanks. Jeep GlenP@loxinfo.co.th Yes, that's Thailand...
Thanks for adding a hiking experience to my Computer. I also love the Estes Park area and would much rather be there than here. Sherry Barricklow Grand Haven Mi barricks@gvsu.edu
Hi Mike,
I finally got here. Took the holiday break for me to make the time. Looks pretty impressive so far. Look forward to seeing you on the trails again...
Jack Cooley (Jack_Cooley@hp.com)
btw: Did a nice SnowShoe to The Loch last Saturday, beautiful on the way up, but WINDY at the top. I'm impressed with the amount of snow. Hope the warm weather we're having won't screw it up too much.
Your site has really brought back some wonderful memories. For the past two years, my husband and I have headed west and hiked the Teton's. If you haven't tried it, you should. Great hiking and beautiful country.
Thanks for sharing your stories. I never thought about a night hike, but now . . .