Marina and I headed up to St Mary’s Glacier, which is really
more like a snow pack at this point. It was a pretty easy hike, but the
altitude didn’t help. The top was cold and the wind had some real bit coming
off the snow. It was cool to see one person skiing in August on the glacier and
several others heading up with ski’s on our way down.
The rock areas around the glacier were covered in chipmunks,
ground squirrels and we briefly saw a marmot before it hit in the rocks and
stared at us while we tried to talk it back out…didn’t work.
After that and brief stop at Wilderness exchange we headed
back to the house. I had an interview with the Colorado Coalition for the
Homeless. Figured I would at least get a job interview done while on the road.
They are a really interesting group that works with the housing first model to
get the homeless off the streets and into sustainable housing. They are part of
a large coalition (somewhere around 500 employees) in a range of services that
work with the underserved in Denver and around CO.
After the meeting, Marina and I went to meet a former grad
student that Marina went to school with who is now teaching in Denver. The plan
was to head after to see my old MMA coach and try to train for the evening, but
it didn’t go as planned. We weren’t able to get a hold of him ahead of time and
so we just headed to the address on the website (which hadn’t been updated in
at least a couple months to years). When we got there we learned that he had
headed up to the mountains to go hunting. So instead we headed back, found a
24-hour fitness, ran 2.5 miles there, worked out and ran/walked home.
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