Spending Time in the Mountains Near Denver

I have a friend that lives in El Paso, Texas.  For the last several years we would visit each other.  Justin would come to Montana to go on some adventures, and I would go down there to go on adventures, most consisting of hiking, climbing, boating, fishing, and overall getting outside (perhaps in the future we can tackle some of the top 50 long distance hiking trails).  But it turns out there is only so much that you can do near us, and after 8 years or so we started running out of things to do (that don’t involve an extensive drive).  We decided to meet in the middle, and explore around Denver, Colorado.

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Neither of us had been to Denver (aside from passing through), so it seemed like a great opportunity to explore an area of the country that a lot of people love.  If you’re into mountain adventures, then here is my advice on things to do near Denver.

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Toward the end of hunting season, I was able to get out and harvest a deer.  It was the only day I was going to get out and hunt in 2015, so I wanted to make the most of it.

In the end, I shot a nice mule deer buck.  Enough to fill the freezer for another year.  When I went to field dress it, I discovered it was 100% female, but it had grown antlers.  I called it a hermaphrodeer.  You can check out the story of how it happened over on the Billings 365 website.  Here are pictures of the deer. More »