Glenwood Springs

My next weekend trip took me once again up the Rocky Mountains. Christine was visiting from Germany and after staying in Colorado for more then 3 years, she felt a bit homesick ;-) So I took two days off and we went up the mountains heading to Glenwood Springs. A pity though that a major blizzard (the last one for this season?) pulled in at the very same weekend...

I wasn't really worried but my colleagues were... so I borrowed a shuffle, starter cables and snow chains of Thomas and filled my car with food, water and cat litter. Yes... cat litter! Apparently it is very good for getting some traction between snow and tires when getting stuck! Interesting what kind of things you learn moving to a different country ;-)

But as you can see on the pictures... it was absolutely necessary to be prepared even though we didn't have any troubles getting to Glenwood Springs which is a three hour drive from Denver... over there though we got snowed in on Saturday. So we visited the nearby caves which had a constant temperature of 55 F (13 C) which were really nice and cosy with all the snow around us ;-)