Escape the busy city

The Saturday right after Thanksgiving brings a lot of people to the streets of Denver. Everything seemed a bit overcrowded, and it looked like a good idea to escape from a bustling city and spend a couple of hours just walking up the slopes and enjoying the beautiful scenery. And... sometimes you are not up to spending too much time in the car to get there. If so... you can always just pass Golden and take a short (or longer) hike at Mount Galbraith.

 

The trail starts with a light ascent and offers plenty of pleasant views. Looking around, you can see rolling hills and rough cliffs, blue skis and a little snow here and there...

 

I've always loved looking at the houses perched on top of the ridge...  I can only imagine how beautiful the view from the windows of this house is...

  

If you look the other way, you can see downtown Denver peeking out between the slopes of Table Mountain and Mount Galbraith...

The most amazing thing we saw this time were the clouds... not only did they look gorgeous...

...but they had a rainbow halo that we had never seen before.

A cloud bridge... It looked like you could almost walk on it!

At some point we looked up and saw a couple of hawks soaring high in the sky looking for some lunch. I guess they would be happy to snatch a mouse or two :)

After about an hour of hiking we decided to turn back... The sun was rolling down and we didn't want to stay on the trail when the temperature dropped and the snow patches froze. We didn't go all the entire way around the mountain this time, but we've done that before - click here to look at it - Saturday hike at the end of November

 

The pictures were taken on November 30, 2024.