vail hiking & biking

Since moving to Colorado, Vail has kind-of become our second home.  Matt's parents graciously let us use their condo anytime, so we find ourselves up there quite often.  We absolutely love it and some of our favorite summer hiking trails are in the Vail valley.  Matt's parents were in town                                for our most recent trip.

{the gore range}

{gore creek}

We went for a lovely hike on Gore Creek Trail.  The wildflowers are at the peak of their season in late July and early August, so they were amazing while we were there.  Matt's dad taught me the names of almost all of the flowers we came across.  This isn't even all of them!

{mariposa lily}

{red clover}

{monk's hood}

{cow parsnip}

{hare bells}

{chiming bells}

{mountain geranium}

{carrying large sticks}

We also biked up Vail Pass while we were in town...

And we always love hanging out in Vail Village!

And here are a couple more photos I snapped of the Gore Range on our way out of town.  

I love to take pictures from this spot.  You can see how drastically the scenery can change in just a couple months by viewing this post from June (and scrolling down to the photo of the Gore Range)!