Adventure 1: Elkhorn Lodge
So this adventure began EARLY Tuesday morning as we set out for Estes Park in search of the Elkhorn Lodge where we would be working all day. The damage of the flood was so apparent the entire drive to Estes Park. Here are some of the pictures from all the damage along the road.
These are just a few of the hundreds of houses destroyed by the flood last September.
So as you can imagine we all saw these houses as a sort of motivation to work harder each day, even if we couldn't help all of these victims, we could speed along the process so someone else could move on to their houses.
Adventure 2: Elkhorn Lodge, Cowboys and Mud (or is that mud?)
Our work site for the day was a the Ranahan Ranch up in the Elkhorn Lodge. First let me start by saying that I met a REAL cowboy! :) Within minutes of meeting the two owners of the ranch, Andy and JT, JT decided to pull out his guitar and play us a song. Country music of course! :) And he gave us all a copy of his CD. Then they sent us up the hill to go start some debris removal, where we got covered in mud...I am not so sure it was actually mud and not something else (horse poop), but I just keep telling myself it was mud. We began to sort anything from twine to complete light poles into movable piles. This is what we continued to do ALL day! We even had to dig some out of the frozen ground! But the real challenge of the day came when Deven, Sammi, and I tried to dig a 5 foot fence post out of the frozen ground...The post was only sticking out of the ground about 8 inches when we began. Although we ran out of time for that project and didn't get the post out from the ground, we had a blast! In fact, here is a link to see Cassie's documentary of the post removal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2HgNonE_d0&feature=youtu.be
Adventure 3: The Stanley Hotel
Yupp, this is exactly as the title says. We saw/took touristy photos in front of The famous Stanley Hotel where Stephen King stayed and wrote "The Shining." No one really knew what The Stanley Hotel was, besides Andrea, one of our adult leaders, who of course screamed of excitement the entire time. So of course we had to pull over and take pictures with it. And here are some of those!
Good night and Lots of Love!
Ari
Our work site for the day was a the Ranahan Ranch up in the Elkhorn Lodge. First let me start by saying that I met a REAL cowboy! :) Within minutes of meeting the two owners of the ranch, Andy and JT, JT decided to pull out his guitar and play us a song. Country music of course! :) And he gave us all a copy of his CD. Then they sent us up the hill to go start some debris removal, where we got covered in mud...I am not so sure it was actually mud and not something else (horse poop), but I just keep telling myself it was mud. We began to sort anything from twine to complete light poles into movable piles. This is what we continued to do ALL day! We even had to dig some out of the frozen ground! But the real challenge of the day came when Deven, Sammi, and I tried to dig a 5 foot fence post out of the frozen ground...The post was only sticking out of the ground about 8 inches when we began. Although we ran out of time for that project and didn't get the post out from the ground, we had a blast! In fact, here is a link to see Cassie's documentary of the post removal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2HgNonE_d0&feature=youtu.be  |
| Our work site. We moved almost all of the debris. |
Adventure 3: The Stanley Hotel
Yupp, this is exactly as the title says. We saw/took touristy photos in front of The famous Stanley Hotel where Stephen King stayed and wrote "The Shining." No one really knew what The Stanley Hotel was, besides Andrea, one of our adult leaders, who of course screamed of excitement the entire time. So of course we had to pull over and take pictures with it. And here are some of those!
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| Group photo in front of the mountains! |
Good night and Lots of Love!
Ari
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