Ahh, The Great Outdoors!

Okay, so I know it's been close to a month since I made my last post. I just really haven't had anything to comment on lately. Yes I've been busy, but I didn't think you guys would want to hear about all the golf Jim and I have been doing. In fact we've been golfing almost every weekend for several weekends now...it's been great!

Before I get started I wanted to take a minute to thank Tom. I'm not sure if any of you pay attention to my cluster map or not but Tom recently made a visit to Hawaii. While in Hawaii Tom logged into my site, so that little red dot in the middle of the ocean that you see is actually Hawaii. Thanks for the mark Tom!!!!

Anyway, this weekend I didn't go golfing. Instead I accompanied some friends up to their cabin on the border of New Mexico and Colorado. Their cabin is actually located in an abandon ski resort, Ski Rio. I'm told that during it's prime Ski Rio was the second largest ski resort in New Mexico (Taos is number one). Due to poor management Ski Rio was closed and the buildings and lift structures were left to rot away.

The cabin is located at the base of the ski basin and has some spectacular views of the surrounding areas. Our weekend consisted of relaxing, enjoying the wildlife, playing a few games, and spending some time on ATV's. Let me step back to the enjoying wildlife...there were lots of cows, a few elk, and oh one bear. Yep, Pam and the kids saw a brown bear not far from the cabin just as they were to set off for a nice hike. Unfortunately Paul and I were off in the mountains enjoying some ATVing so we both missed out on this event. Pam did manage to get a picture of the bear...from a distance, and I was bummed that I missed out on it. Oh well, maybe next trip. All in all it was a very beautiful place and I had a wonderful time. Unfortunately Jim was unable to join us...he was stuck working. I hope to make another trip up there during a time that Jim could us, I really think he would have a good time.

I took several photos while on top of mountains and I thought I would share them with you. I forgot to take pictures of the cabin though...

Believe it or not, there are elk in this picture. They are in the meadow at the bottom of the picture. I promise they are there, but it's really hard to see them and I don't think blogger will allow you to zoom in.

The following pictures are just of some of the views that Paul and I saw while on the ATV's.