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When people hear that I live in Marble, Colorado, they usually say, “Whoa! That’s a long commute.”
There’s reason I live in Marble. You can see an example of that reason in the photo above. I took this photo out the window of my car on the way to work this week. This spot is just few miles from my house.
It’s like living in a National Park.
Don’t pity me.
Free gas would be ok, though.
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Yesterday our garage floor was poured, heaters were installed in the house, kitchen cabinets arrived, and Gunnison County graded our road. Whew! I could hardly keep up with the action.
The garage is going to be an unbelievable “Man Cave”.
I’m already making plans to camp in the garage.
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It isn’t easy being a spontaneous family. We were exploring around Marble last Sunday when we decided to climb this cliff. The youngest one in this picture said “Hey, if you stand on her shoulders, then I can stand on yours, and we will probably be able to make it to the top.”
I was dubious, as a father should be, but it sounded good to me.
The barn boots on the one on the bottom weren’t the best item for climbing mountains in, but she seemed to do ok.The middle person hooked his nose onto a ledge (called in climbing lingo a “nose smear”) for added traction and holding power.
The little guy in red scrambled up like a monkey and summited with no problem.
Before you go calling the child welfare department, you should know that for this particular photo, I tilted the camera.
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Can you see the cave tour guide and the tourists in the photo?
This is my favorite part of being a tour guide at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park: Bringing people out to a cliff 1300 ft. above the Colorado river.
People never expect to end up on a precipice, let alone so high up the canyon walls.
When I follow the group out onto the platform, I say, “Thank you all for coming on the tour, today. We will be issuing parachutes so you can go home now.” (Nervous laughter.)
The original platform was built around 1898 by Charles W. Darrow, brother of Clarence Darrow, the famous lawyer and Scopes Monkey Trial lawyer.
The original platform had no guardrail.
Instead of calling it “Exclamation Point”, I would have called it “Perspiration Point.”
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It isn’t easy being a spontaneous family. We were exploring around Marble last Sunday when we decided to climb this cliff. The youngest one in this picture said “Hey, if you stand on her shoulders, then I can stand on yours, and we will probably be able to make it to the top.”
I was dubious, as a father should be, but it sounded good to me.
The barn boots on the one on the bottom weren’t the best item for climbing mountains in, but she seemed to do ok.The middle person hooked his nose onto a ledge (called in climbing lingo a “nose smear”) for added traction and holding power.
The little guy in red scrambled up like a monkey and summited with no problem.
Before you go calling the child welfare department, you should know that for this particular photo, I tilted the camera.