Snow or Shine

I spent Fall Break in Denver, Colorado, relaxing and exploring one of the United States most beautiful areas. As I discussed in a previous blog, I was slightly apprehensive of buying into the Denver hype before I spent time in the city. Even though I had spent extended time in the Colorado mountains skiing, I was unsure if the city could possess the same open and freeing feeling that the mountains did.

While I mentioned that Denver more than lived up to everybody and my own expectations, I felt that there was an aspect missing from my previous blog post that I made the nature of Denver more breathtaking which was the environmental diversity.

On the Sunday of Fall Break, we woke up to a heavy snow that continued throughout the day. The fall leaves and the green grass that we arrived to had now been replaced by a sheet of snow. The snow was naturally accompanied by a severe drop in temperature that I was neither expecting nor prepared for.

However cold the weather was, the snow’s beauty more than made up for it.  While we were supposed to go hiking, the severe weather for non-Coloradans or normal weather for Coloradans forced us to call an audible. We ventured to a nearby hill freshly covered with snow and created makeshift sleds from plastic storage bin. I can’t say that I reached top speed on these sleds, but I did fall over several times to have a face-to-face encounter with my hands without gloves and the freezing snow.  

With all of this being said, I was really blown away by how one day you can be playing frisbee and football in the park with the sun out and the clear skies, and the next day you are in the middle of a heavy snowfall. Regardless of the weather, the people of Denver continued to go about their lives and embrace the environment through sun or snow, making Denver such a special place for all nature enthusiasts.