so in today's vlog we are doing a little evening sunset cruise here in the park
one thing we haven't done yet is to come into the park late at night it's about 4:30 right now
we're gonna drive up to the alpine center check it out and then make our way back down and see
if we can see any wildlife along the way because it's always fun taking evening drives and then
that's a lot of times when the wildlife is on about so i figured why not go to rocky mountain
national park to check it out at evening time and maybe we'll even see a sunset let's go explore
all right you guys so we were here springtime beginning of june i did a whole vlog we saw so
many moose and it was a lot cooler it wasn't as green up here once you get into the more alpine
areas um but now it is july third as i'm filming and there's mosquitoes out up here and they're
literally having a feast from my body they're all over and we're like almost to the alpine center so
pretty high elevation and the mosquitoes are out but it's just a warm beautiful day i think
it's like 60 degrees right now it's gorgeous right we are at the alpine visitor center
so right there's the hike i'm gonna do and you see right there huge uh crossing the trail
right here from the alpine center those were huge elk so we were gonna do this hike when i vlogged
our springtime trip here but this is all covered in snow so we couldn't make it and it's funny how
one month later how it's changed it's wide open now it's gorgeous to the top we go
so we weren't gonna go all the way to like the grand lake entrance area but
we're like you know what we're gonna do it and we're gonna have lunch here
so we're at beaver pond's picnic area and this is our
for dinner i'm having a grilled chicken salad got my little dressing here of olive oil red
wine vinegar and soy sauce and then vince made himself a wrap so watching the sunset
so this is like the perfect spot for most to come out
you watched our last rocky mountain vlog we had lunch with the moose it was amazing
that is gorgeous so we were just eating like way down by grand lake area and the sun was setting
behind the mountain but now we're climbing back up and going to the other side of rocky mountain
on our way back home and now the sun is up again because we're climbing so we have the sunset again
we got a moose when we're driving here because the cow moves she's just munching oh she's so pretty
what a pretty girl first moose where the continental divide oh my gosh you
guys there's an elk crossing a milliner pass lake right now
you're seeing right there that you just saw on that frame is stupidity
those people started walking out to them like do they see what they're dealing with come on people
it's a wild live animal that's crazy don't be that person okay don't be stupid all right you guys and
on the other side here we got a new deer this is milner lake there he is away in his tail oh my god
wow they're big
there he is
that's gorgeous wow you guys that's amazing and this is even going on
fourth of july weekend there is another huge elk right here and we're gonna go look at him it's
all about the elk tonight guys so here's the elk right there standing proud and beautiful
and just to give you perspective that's where we just saw the other lacrosse
beautiful mule deer moose elk i mean now if we saw a bear that would be perfect
this is sunset hour in rocky mountain national park we pulled over to catch
more of the sunset and i look across the road and there's this wheel there just chilling
he's watching me hi buddy oh you're beautiful
and they're watching the sunset with us you guys like come on see even the deer and the
wildlife like these sunsets check this out we keep climbing the sun keeps popping out we got
some more elk down here there they are we got sunsets elk and mountains can get any better
wow
is it is like quarter after eight as i'm filming since that hour
you guys i think the sun is real close to setting
because we're pretty high right now look at the colors
there's another elk there's a spot wow wow look at him you guys he is gorgeous
oh there's another one that just came look here
wow that's a new deer a mule deer and an elk you guys
what's the mule deer
there he goes
seriously really mr elK
wow pretty cool and then the deer is right there a little different perspective from the top of
our tree one thing we have not seen are these elf with these huge antlers yet this year we've seen
a lot of um cows um and then ones that have like tiny little antlers so here now that it's still
on like these antlers are just crazy and lots of velvet on them it's gorgeous it is 50 degrees and
8:30 at night so one thing if you are coming into the park for like sunset you should be on like the
grand lake side because if you're on the side by estes i don't know how good the sunset would be
since that's the side the sun sets so um i'm i'm so glad we actually did go to grand lake today
we weren't planning to but like i don't think we would have got those sunset views if we didn't so
now you know one tip use your paddle shifters or your manual if you have it when you're going
down the hills here save your brakes don't ride your brakes the whole time yeah we literally were
behind um an suv going down to greenland lake from the alpine breaks were on the entire time i'm like
like yeah it was over 10 minutes of him breaking i'm like that thing does have
paddle gears you know use it so another tip use your engine use your engine to
brake don't use your brakes so burn them up in the mountains so another tip for you
is that we have more moose oh my god they're beautiful
oh we're just leaving
you guys that was amazing to our moose right before we were leaving
and i'm sorry if the video sucks but it is 10 after 9 and these moose are just hanging here
on the side of the road the sun has set wow is all i can say so the night of sunsets and elk
and beautiful beautiful moose if you're looking to visit rocky mountain national park
highly recommend sunset hour come in the evening it's absolutely gorgeous
lots of wildlife out but i mean we have been here during the middle of the day too and
see lots of wildlife oh there's mosquitoes so thanks so much for watching and be sure to give
this video a thumbs up and subscribe for future vlogs there's mosquitoes okay gotta go bye guys