Silver Lake, Colorado

We are at a condo in Silver Lake Colorado. Bryce's rep Ford and his wife Debbie let us use it for a few days. It's absolutely beautiful here and there is a private lake for all the condo owners to use. The gang has been fishing everyday, all day if they could. Yesterday (Sat. 8/7) we hiked up to the St. Mary's Glacier. Once there we decided to hike all the way to the top of the glacier, WOW. We hiked on the glacier, it was funny being in shorts and hiking on ice. It took us about 1 1/2 hours to hike all the way to the top of the glacier, which ends up being around 12,000 - 13,000 feet above sea level. We had to stop often to catch our breath and to rest our legs. There were actually people snowboarding and skiing down the glacier. Coming down was interesting, it went faster, but it was also very slippery. The kids loved running, slipping, and then falling down. I had made it almost all the way off the glacier before, you guessed it, I fell. There was a waterfall at the bottom of the glacier were the ice was melting, this flowed into a small lake. We hiked around the lake and we had one brave soul of the group who decided to get into the glacier water, that would be Jake! He was so glad he was the only one who did it. He wanted to at least say he did it, and he did. We are so proud of him! The internet works slowly here so I will add pictures later! All in all our hike took us about 4 hours, what a great day! I still can't believe we hiked on a glacier