Colorado 2017: Hiking the Eaglesmere Trail...

We all woke up refreshed on Friday.  We were wondering how Miss Kya would feel and if she should skip our hike we had planned for the day, but that girl came running up stairs wagging her tail to say good morning.  She was totally all, I am fine guys, what are we doing today?

Ken and I walked to the Log Cabin Cafe for a wonderful breakfast.  Our friends Jennie and Lindsay were planning on meeting us in Frisco, so we decided to wait for them to arrive before heading out on our hike.  After breakfast, Kya and I walked around a bit and then we all relaxed until the girls arrived.  Once they arrived, we loaded up and headed out to Silverthorne for our hike.

We had hiked this trail last year as we had read that it was a great trail to see the aspens.  Since we knew we could see the aspens, we decided to do it again this year and hopefully not encounter snow like we had before.

My two cute hikers ready to see the aspens!

Us girls enjoying the trail

We were instantly greeted with some beautiful views!

Kya was in her happy place for sure.  This girl loves to hike.

Beautiful Fall colors

Hiking through the aspen groves

This is an out and back trail that is 7.4 miles round trip.  Sadly, we have never actually made it to the lake.  We ran into snow last year and this year it started raining and thunderstorming on us, so we turned around.  I suppose we are not meant to actually see the lake!

Family photo looking down at the lower Cataract Lake

Lindsay and Jennie enjoying the hike.  We were so glad they drove in from Denver to spend some time with us!

Lower Cataract Lake

Kya was the trail leader.  She L-O-V-E-D it.

It started drizzling on us and we kept going.  Like I said above, it starting raining pretty steadily and then we heard a huge clap of thunder and we all looked at each other and said it was time to turn around.  We hiked at a pretty good clip to get back to the car.  As we were hiking back, the sun came out and we were really hoping we might see a rainbow at some point.  We came out of the trees and low and behold we saw not one but two rainbows!

The second rainbow was barely visible, but you could see it for a bit.  It quickly faded away, but we felt so lucky to have gotten to see a double rainbow.

These two were both pretty excited about the rainbow.  I mean, aspens and a rainbow in the mountains???  How lucky are we!

Family photo with the rainbow.  The cats were there in spirit, ha!

Jennie and Lindsay happy that the sun came out and that it stopped raining!

It started raining on us again just as we were getting back to the car.  We drove back to Frisco and had beautiful sunshine.  We relaxed for a while before heading out to dinner.  One of our other friends just recently moved back to Breckenridge, so he met up with us for dinner and beers at Backcountry Brewery.  Ken and Chris stayed out for a while longer and us girls went back to the condo for a slumber party since Ken ended up having guy time with Chris all night.  It was such a fun day filled with lots of aspens and lots of friends!