Yesterday Melanie and I went for a bike ride to the top of Vail mountain. I also got to demo a 29 inch wheel mountain bike. My thoughts of a 29'er is a good bike for racing and smoking your bro's on straight a ways!

Mel and I ended the bike ride up at Eagles Nest

At the end of the day friends and I got to go to FAC a top of the gondola.

I got to play some horse shoe with friends

Last night ended with a great sunset

This morning Melanie and I drove 1/2 an hour to go rock climbing in this place past Red Cliff. When we got there everybody and there Mom was climbing every route on the wall. So Melanie and I went back for a lazy day in the Vail Village. We ended up having a awesome lunch at La Bottega right before Mel had to go to work.

After lunch we let Tasha play in the water of the Gore Creek for a cool down.

My bike ride on Vail mountain really sucked! It seemed like everywhere I went on the bottom half of the front side there was closures because of construction.

After a big day rock climbing yesterday Melanie and I decided to go for a big hike up one of the East Vail trails. We decided to hike up to Booth Lake and brought some of our cooking gear for a nice lunch a top. The most exciting part of the trip was when I saw a mountain lion on the way down from the lake, and no I do not have any pictures of that!

On our way up past the falls we ran into alot of snow over the trail

Thanks to my new water pump we had fresh water on the fly.

When we got to Booth Lake the view was bone chill'in.

The best part of hiking is the relax'in part of it when you get to the top.

The hike back to the trail head only took us two hours!

Let the games begin! June 25th and I finally got my lazy ass out to rock climb. The weather was perfect the time of day was right. Melanie and I drove over to the Wolcott rocks to climb a beautiful rest of the day in the sunny warm late afternoon. Now that Tasha is finally an adult, she was not as aggravating as she use to be on my rock climbing excursions! Anyways the day ended well with six total ascents between Mel and I. Let the good times roll!

Melanie was kinda nervous on her first ascent, however she learned to over come her fears!

Tasha could hardly stand the hot rock heat of Wolcott.

After top rope'in Melanie and I headed over to the bouldering rocks right down the street. Here's Mel's first time bouldering in the out doors!

Last night after dinner Mel and I met up with friends at the Ore house. Left to right- Carina, Melanie, Saskia, Verena and Nadia talking German jiberous.

Yesterday for dinner Melanie and I road our bikes into the village and ate at Vendettas. Here's a pictures of our dinning view over looking Tasha on Bridge street.

Yesterday when Mel and I got out of work we headed out on our bikes to do Son of Middle Creek. The temperatures were perfect in the later day however the trail were really dusty.

Tasha and Koura were so happy to see each other again. This past weekend Len and Koura drove up to Vail for the day to hang out with Tasha and I.

Last Saturday Len and I drove over to Leadville to eat dinner with Shaun at Rosies Brewpub.

This morning Melanie and I drove over to Frisco to hike the first half of Mount Royal. Here I am with Tasha trying out her new dog harness system.

After our hike we ended up at the Frisco Marina for some horrible lunch.

Gaper picture of the day!

Made some new friends today, neighbors new pup!

I ended the day on bikes with Nick on the North Trail.

Yesterday after working a long day at work Melanie and I headed out to a hospitality party for free food and drinks.

After the Sun Deck party we all headed over the watch the Sonnenalp soft ball games

During the game Melanie and Janine played a little bad mitten on the side line.

Today was my fourth and final day on the North trail to finish all sections of the system.

The top view of Vail Village from my ride

Good Morning to everyone from my work here at the Sonnenalp. The weather cooled off today after the yesterdays hottest day of the season. Denver recorded 100 degrees F and Vail a whooping 80's degrees.

After work yesterday Jeremy, Erik and I went for a ride up Sandstone Road down Buffehr Creek. If you look close enough you can see Erik climbing up the service road.

After the big bike ride with the boys Melanie and I played some tennis in the courts of Eagle Vail.

Yesterday Nick and I rode buffehr trail to the North trail. The weather turned out a little overcast which turned out nice for us temperature wise!

Our view of Vail mountain on our ride

Two days ago on June 15th the long awaited North Trail finally opened for the season. So Melanie and I after work went for a ride.

Melanie well on her way up the North Trail

Sun in the Aspens

After spending my day off yesterday indoors because of the rain I finally got out this morning for a bike ride. It was sunny however as I soon found out all the trails were muddy as....

Looking down at the Vail Village you could see it is doing some serious pending!

Today after my muddy bike ride on Vail mountain, I took Tasha to the doggy park. Where Tasha and I got to go for a little hike a play a little catch in the park.

During the hike I could see all the Pine beetled trees

After the hike we played a game of catch

Last Tuesday the whole front end department of the Sonnenalp went out for a golf outing on our hotel course in Edwards. It was the first time I went since I was kid. However thanks to my Uncle Frank, his helped me hit a ball like a pro!

Nick going for his first drive on hole one.

Here's Daniel Morris trying to chip over the sand trap!

Here's Jeremy hanging out with the Fox