Well, on to September. Despite the drought and no irrigation, there were still apples to pick at a friend's orchard, and press into, what, 10 gallons of cider. We drank a couple of gallons and inoculated the rest with last year's vinegar mother (we use a lot of vinegar for salad dressing, fire cider, etc).
We dried all of the pulp on screens under glass up on the goat barn roof and in the cabin greenhouse, resulting in many gallons of winter goat treats. Goats love bribes.
With Amber more comfortable with the goats and milking, Jeanne and I set out for our first backpacking trip together in years. This one was up the Spud Pass Trail to Deep Creek Lakes, a place we'd been wanting to see for awhile. Despite the low water levels and muted fall colors due to the drought, it was still really nice, and the wildfire smoke that we'd experienced for much of the summer mostly gone. Thank you Amber!
Again, with Amber's help, we started really making up for lost time over the next few weeks, going on several long day hikes together. The next three photos are from a day hike to East Creek Pass, near Redstone, Colorado. Can you find the gnome in the picture below?
Autumn sky wildness at the farm...
Day loop hike up Black Canyon, and over the Ruby Munsey Stock Driveway. We also climbed part way up Mt. Gunnison, far enough to realize we'd need to make it an overnight to make it to the top, and looking at the scree slopes we'd need to climb, not sure that it was worth the trouble and hazard.
Linc's men's group climbed Mount Lamborn together and enjoyed a sunset together afterwards.
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