hey guys we are here in rocky mountain national park doing a nice little morning hike here
on a beautiful blue sky 60 degree day it's absolutely gorgeous here we are doing mount
chapin today which is 3.9 miles round trip with an elevation gain of just under 1500
feet this hike is located right off of old fall river road which is a seasonal road here
in rocky mountain national park it's nine miles one way gravel road and so that's where
you access this hike if you want to learn more about old fall river road i have an entire
vlog where i talk more about it and we did the full tour of it so go check out that blog
if you want to learn more we've never done hikes off of this road so today's that day
and we are going to summit mount chapin today ready to do some hiking let's go all right
let's go
really really exciting morning um as we were driving in estes park to enter rocky mountain
national park we saw two cub bears run in front of our vehicle on the road they were
super quick so we didn't get any footage but our first bears here in colorado which was
so exciting the cubs didn't see mama but you know she was close and then uh when we entered
through the fall river entrance that's the way we always enter we go past sheep's lake
here in the park and we saw coyote so fun fun hopefully we see more wildlife today
rocky road national park has already had us for snow for 2021 this year last week it got
snowed they had to close trail ridge road and get the plows out the mountains already
got some snow out here in colorado
um yeah those deer were running really fast makes you wonder why were you running that
fast we're going right to where they were running too so uh all right people have reported
seeing bears on this trail so that's why we're like why are you running dear we got the bear
spray out here a little more handier in case we need it
i'm ready all right locked and loaded
colorado has been getting hit with a lot of those california fire all that smoke there's
been days where we can't even see the mountains from our house so lucky how clear it is because
it hasn't been like this those are the deer we saw they got babies
so once you get out of the forest area down below it is all alpine this whole trail it
just goes right along this edge all the way over and up to mount chapin
mountain this is a colorful colorado right there you guys
we are at our turn to summit mount chapin we just walked all the way trail goes through
a lot of rock fields that come down along here so you're you're climbing a lot of rock
like across a lot of rock but not too bad
all right you ready for the summit oh this is
a but kicker let's go
this was worth it, it's always worth it
this definitely worked us and it was a good hike though it's this panoramic views this
view like everything about this amazing
over there is trail ridge road you can kind of see all the little cars going we're taller
than the cars this is where breakfast is going to be today on chapin mountain nice little
wind break kinda right here
this is amazing views for breakfast it's the estes park way off in the distance
that we brought with our collapsible cups which we absolutely love for hiking because
they collapse down so small
oh there's nothing like some coffee after hike yes muffin time here's our chocolate
muffins and the sun is so strong here in colorado that it's already like melted the chocolate
on top muffins and coffee with a view can't go wrong with that this is so good we never
eat breakfast until we summit we're busting open the jerky we're kind of sad though they
didn't have any old trapper jerky left we always get old trapper so we're gonna try
the great value taste test right now how is it good is it good is it old trapper good
not old trapper all right well hopefully next time they have some in stock
amazing breakfast spot right here so time to head back awesome hike do it if you're
in rocky mountain national park but remember you have to do it when old fall river road
is open in the park it's seasonal it's probably gonna close down by september they've already
had snow in the park like i mentioned so it could close earlier so all right things have
warmed up had to take out the sweatshirt so after we finish this hike we're heading on
a little suv dispersed camping trip we did our very first suv off-grid camping last weekend
and it was so much fun like we loved it so much we found an amazing dispersed camping
here in colorado stay tuned for my next vlog after this so we are almost back at the trailhead
here so i'm gonna wrap this up so we started the hike at 9:30 this morning we spent 45
minutes at the summit and we're just getting back and it is 1:30.
so four hours total with a 45 minute break at the summit mount chapin was amazing so
highly recommend if you have any questions let me know down in the comments don't forget
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spot for the night hopefully we'll see you on that vlog bye guys