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	<title>Away From the Grind &#187; Colorado</title>
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		<title>Snowshoe or Ski In&#160;Cabins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just imagine. Before turning in you step outside. The cold is bracing, refreshing. Listening intently, you quiet your breath. There isn’t a sound, just the faint stir of wind in snow laden&#160;pines. As eyes adjust to the night the sky becomes alive, rivers coursing through the pulsating glow of the Milky Way. Orion hovers above, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasm&#160;Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She told me she wanted one more hike before the snow flew. She wanted to take her friend who wasn’t sold on outdoor excursions. Her criteria were tough:&#160; * A destination so stunning, so gorgeous, so interesting, so grand as to be beyond words * A trailhead within two hours drive of Cheyenne, Wyoming * [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hewlett&#160;Gulch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cache la poudre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ft. Collins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word “gulch” brings up scenes from a cartoon. A dry desolate wash, replete with a bleached cow skeleton, where (gulp!) our intrepid hero Goofy is about to be dry-gulched by a gang of stubble-faced&#160;villains. Not an inviting picture. And nothing like Hewlett Gulch.&#160; Hewlett is an inviting ramble up a pleasant creek, a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafting the Cache la&#160;Poudre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I went into the Room of Doom, through the Maze, down the Devil’s Staircase. And that was just the start. After Decapitation there was Cardiac. I nearly ended in the Pine Box.&#160; It was my wife’s idea. She said our 35th wedding anniversary needed some adrenaline. That got me worried. What did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coyote Ridge in Ft. Collins Open&#160;Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 01:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Itching to get out and stretch your legs? Restless? A warm breeze, a few daffodils, robins hopping about the yard will do that to a&#160;person. But here on these high plains all our favorite tramping grounds are bound in snow or slippery with mud. What’s a person to do?&#160; Drop about a thousand feet. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year’s in Rocky Mountain National Park:  You can set up the year just&#160;right.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Sue said that the way you spend New Year’s Day is how you will spend the rest of the year. “Chinese tradition,“ she said. Wow. So how could I have a really great day and set fate on a roll to a splendid&#160;year? Picture this: effortlessly gliding across a sparkling snow field under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palmer Park, Colorado Springs,&#160;CO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roselyn Ludwig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mountain biking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oasis in the Middle of Colorado Springs,&#160;CO Location:Palmer Park sits right in the middle of Colorado Springs.  There are two entrances to the&#160;park. To the WEST entrance: take Fillmore east, just past the major intersection at Union Blvd; you will see some medical office buildings, and then the golf course on the left.  Turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Sand Dunes National Park and&#160;Preserve</title>
		<link>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/colorado/great-sand-dunes-national-park-and-preserve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[kangaroo rats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medano Creek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be one of the most fun national parks in the country.   Children laughing, frolicking in the water, splashing through the next wave.  Families building sand castles. Teens flying colorful kites. Seniors watching in beach chairs under their canopies.  Kids climbing up the sand, sliding down on their plastic sleds.  Dogs playing at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Cheyenne Canon Park, Colorado Springs,&#160;CO</title>
		<link>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/colorado/north-cheyenne-canon-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roselyn Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[helen hunt falls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll leave the more serious, camping/backpacking locales for my father to write up.My hikes are of the day variety, nearby places where I can escape into nature for an afternoon or so.So, I’ve decided I’ll write up some of those places, for those out there who just want a place to get some fresh air, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pawnee&#160;Buttes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colorado National Grasslands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking northern colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking prairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pawnee Buttes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has winter cramped your soul, crumpled it up like a wadded piece of paper stuffed into your chest? Do you just need to get out? But where to go in April, with the high country still in&#160;snow? Try Pawnee Buttes. These two rugged outliers stand away from the retreating bluff, their capstone roofs towering in [...]]]></description>
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