Yellowstone 2010

Alan and I were able to take a little vacation with the Astin's to Yellowstone again this year. We stayed at Wendy's parents cabin again. They are so nice to let us come in and crash. We left after Alan got off work on Tuesday and drove until about 2:30 am to get there. The next morning Randy said we were going to go on a LITTLE mountain bike ride. Ok.....we trusted him at the beginning. A quarter way into the hike we didn't trust him anymore. He said that he had ridden the 4 wheelers on this trail a few years ago.....ok. This trail was for 4 wheelers and animals, not mountain bikes. Our first clue should have been the conidtion of the trail and the fact that it went straight uphill right off the bat. Five hours and 12 miles later (six and a half of it uphill) we finished our LITTLE mountain bike ride. That being said, it was very enjoyable and the view was unbelievable. I think we were at about 10,000 feet at the top.

This pic is of Alan and Randy right on the Continental Divide between Idaho and Montana. You can see the post sticking up. We had already biked/hiked for a while when we saw what else was ahead of us. The picture doesn't do it justice.

Of course we had our bear spray with us in case we saw a Grizzly. (Like I would have been able to get it off my hip fast enough to use it properly. Honestly......)

All the hard work and effort was definately worth it. We won't call this a relaxing vacation it was an "Extreme Vacation".