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Summer Vacation – Underground Style

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Still exploring our local recreational opportunities
with family visitors here in central Colorado. Up to Glenwood
Caverns and Adventure Park yesterday.
What a cool place. You can take all manner of cave tours, from mild
to wild, or do a variety of creative adrenaline rides such as a mountain
slide, and gigantic swing that sends you out over a 1,000 foot cliff
at about 50 mph. We opted for a crawl tour of the cave. Highly recommended.
A real caver takes you on a moderate but physical tour that
involves a bunch of crawling and tight squeezes.

Training for backcountry skiing.
Inside the cave,
the kids were wriggling around like they were born to it. Training
for backcountry skiing? Everything helps.

Posted by Lou on July 25, 2005 | Filed Under Trip Reports 

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