during my three weeks in the midwest, tony and i drove on over to fort collins, CO to visit on of his friends. (same friend we stayed with in new orleans last year). our week there was packed with hiking (and all the driving through Denver traffic it takes to get to the hiking places). eating ice cream in georgetown (tony and i shared “butter brittle” holy heck it was good) on our way to a little spur of the moment camping trip on guanella pass. we did lots of geode hunting and panning for gold. pointed out all the old mine shafts we saw on the side of mountains. saw some mountain rams, and took some pictures at the continental divide.