It's always an adventure going up the road! And it's been even more of an adventure during the road construction. But the final product is a joy to travel! And to think that the original Mineral King Road was built in the 1870's using manual labor, draft animals (horses and mules with freight and grading wagons), basic hand tools (picks, shovels, and rock drills), and blasting powder/explosives to carve a shelf through the rugged granite and steep canyons of the East Fork Kaw

But this is just about GETTING there!!! Lot of joy in the mountains to come!

Sometimes the world is a lot. Gelson's makes it feel better.

A labor of love.

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What you can't see is that it was over 90 degress at 9:00 a.m.! We curtailed some of traditional activities like the corn stalk train ride because it was blistering hot!!!

Getting older means modifying our traditions so that we can still continue to enjoy them. Thus, we split our 12 foot tree into three! And we hope that our 2000 strong ornament collection will fit on these three trees -- including the Christmas monkey!

Tell me if you know what the allusion is in the title of this post! (What movie am I referring to?)