Focht Family Blog

Wow! It is amazing how much high altitude can get to you. By the time we got up to Rocky Mountain all of the adults had slight headaches. The drive was beautiful. This is a picture of one of the pull offs. Unfortunately it was overcast or you would be able to see the peak in the background.

We stopped at another area where there was a good view of the surrounding mountains.

Todd told us that if we saw cars pulled over that someone saw an animal and we should pull over as well. Sure enough… there were elk everywhere. Here are two males eating. We loved their horns. They were fat and fuzzy. Timmy said they looked fake. :)

They were losing their winter coats so when they shook you could see the fur flying off of them.

We started trying to see how many different kinds of animals we could spot. Nathan spotted a group of sheep up on a hill.

I spotted some deer down another hill.

While driving out of the park we saw elk in some strange places. We saw them on the golf course which was funny because there were people playing golf. One of the other places we saw them was in the yards of houses. I couldn’t resist getting a picture of one of them.

The elk has its back turned but you can see him in front of the tree on the left.

One of the other animals we have seen a lot of in Colorado is prairie dogs. Apparently they are a problem here. Timmy hadn’t seen any of them that we had pointed out so we found a large field that was full of them and pulled over to watch them. I tried to get pictures but I scared most of them off. Here is one that was a little braver then the rest.

We had a great time in Colorado and we are already planning what we want to see the next time through. We are now driving though Kansas on our way to Branson, MO.