It was nice waking up without having to put in miles.  I still woke up extremely early, but rather than packing up a tent, I made coffee and caught up on the news.  We had a relaxing morning but headed to Mt Elbert Trailhead around 9am.  We climbed to 12,000ft, just above tree line and stopped there since there was a storm coming in later in the afternoon.

After heading home to clean up, we headed to the new brewery in town and met my friend Mark and his girlfriend Danielle .  He’s running the race also.   The rain came later and the temperature drooped about 15 degrees so we spent a few hours at the brewery.

The Leadville greeter, James, was there also.  He’s an interesting guy.

On the way home, we got a look the mountains and all of them had a fresh dusting of snow.