At the summit of Mt Sherman

This weekend Jude climbed a fourteener with me for the fourth year in a row. This time we decided to climb Mt Sherman near Fairplay, to get out of the front range and the crazy crowds on 14ers these days. We drove to Fairplay on Saturday afternoon staying at a hotel that night. We were up bright and early this morning to drive to the trailhead and we were on the trail before 8am.

Mt Sherman is a relatively easy hike as 14ers go, just over 2,000 feet of vertical and a six mile roundtrip hike. We were back to the car in 4 hours 20 minutes, the quickest 14er we have done together. Then it was off to lunch in Fairplay where Jude wanted to go to a sports bar to watch the Packers game.

Enjoying lunch and the Packers game after the hike

Friday night we went to a function at Jude’s school and then Jude had a sleepover with one of his new school friends there. Anna was up first on Saturday, that in itself is a first, and when we came down for breakfast it was all set up for us. Then she decided to make herself a giant pancake. It was all very sweet.

Anna made breakfast for everyone on Saturday and a giant pancake for herself

Anna had her second soccer game on Saturday. We all went to watch and it was another super hot day. But Anna was undeterred. She ran all over the field and was easily the best player on her team in my opinion. They lost 3-2 and Anna was hot and exhausted afterwards. But she had a birthday party to go to right after soccer so she got changed and went to Spider Monkey to play. It was quite an energetic afternoon.