The weather turned for the worse in the night, and when we woke it was raining and cold outside. We did some shopping in Boulder stopping off at the REI, Boulder running company, Circuit city and the Wholefoods market where we had lunch again.

We then drove to Estes Park where we checked into RiverView Pines, as we arrived it started to snow. Whilst not being top notch accommodation the room we had was ok, and we had good views of the river and mountains out of the window.

We drove over to the Twin Owls trail head, and then hiked up to Gem Lake

It was quite cold and was snowing on and off as we hiked along. Hiking was harder than normal as we were still not used to the thin air.

The hike was fairly short only about 3 miles, when we got back to the car we drove over the the Mexican restaurant Grumpy Gringos were we had a very good meal. That night Clare suffered from altitude sickness, and was quite sick for most of the night.

DAY 5