Somehow I always feel more alive when I am high up in the mountains here in Colorado. Almost as if I can finally breathe. We took our dog Harry and a friend up to Grizzly Peak which sits just west of the famous Gray’s and Torrey’s Fourteeners. They are so close when you are at the top, it appears as if you could just step over to them. Reality would be a long hike down and a long hike back up to their summits. While you are hiking, you have these long periods of just stepping, breathing, stepping, and it is kind of like a meditation. Sometimes you can talk to your fellow hikers, sometimes it takes all you have just to keep moving. There is no talking then. Just you and the trail. It is one of the things I love to do, hiking way up high like that. I started taking my kids when they were young teens. A lovely thing to do together. Then we celebrate at the summit, congratulating each other for making it the whole way!!