9,000 Feet

10 days on a trip with bus loads of teenagers driving across the country may not be your cup of tea... but it may have just been the best week of my summer.

We left Friday July 31st after work and drove for 34 hours straight (or some such rediculous number) watching a collection of great 80's baby movies along the way... making me realize how much of an age difference is now between me and high schoolers. We reached Colorado Springs LATE Saturday night and proceeded to check into 20 hotel rooms at the local Best Western. Up early again, we were on the road to Buena Vista- with a quick stop at the red rock formation of the Garden of the Gods. We had lunch in Buena Vista- a suburb of a small town kind of place, and then started heading up and up and up... til we reached Frontier Ranch at about 9,000 feet.

Camp sat amidst the Collegiate Peaks and at the entrance to the Mt. Princeton trail. It's a place where beauty surrounds and magesty reigns. The magnificence was magnified by the fact that the camp trip I was chaperoning was for the Christian group YoungLife... and we were reminded that God created this beauty for our enjoyment.

And enjoy it we did. From rock-climbing, repelling, hiking, horse back riding, ropes courses and ridgerunners to swimming, running, playing, water sliding and bracelet making. It was a great week, in an unbelievable place. If you're ever asked to go to Young Life's Frontier Ranch... know that it's a privelege. Drop your life and go, it's well worth it (even with the 550 teenagers).

Enjoy the photos!