After leaving Wyoming we came down to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. There is one hike in particular in Rocky Mountain National Park that is just fantastic. It is the Sky Pond hike and just as the name suggest it is a pond or lake that is a way up near top of a mountain. Total length of the hike was about a little over 10 miles but well worth it. The change in elevation is about 1700 feet and you start out at a little over 9200 feet. You have have to have a little bit of self discipline to condition yourself to make the climb. Some of the things that made this such a nice hike is that you were walking by waterfalls or moving water quite a bit of the time and then there were also 3 lakes total on the way to the top as well as two waterfalls. When you got nearly to the top the only way to finish the hike was to climb up one of the waterfalls now it was not a heavy Falls but it was about 3 feet wide and the water was constantly moving and yes you did get wet but it paid off when you got up at the top to see Sky Pond. There were several places on this hike as well as other hikes where we had to cross snow fields where the winter snow has not melted yet. The problem is the snow has turned into ice balls and it is very slippery to cross the snow field. Hiking polls help a lot but you still have to be careful because it's very slippery. All of the pictures below are taken from the trail hiking to Sky Pond.
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