Upslope BackCountry Taproom With Wilburs & Kaisers 02Oct21

I was fortunate to catch a great day in the Grand Co alpine with my friends Jason & Scott. It was especially keen as I finally got to meet Jason's lady Lori, an impressive writer, walker, mom, drinker and friend - we had some moments; she's very cool. She even has good taste, in beer at least, enjoying the hazies most. Of course too, Reid the angel was on the adventure and she really opened up during the weekend and seemed to have a blast. Below I catch her rockin' with the BT speaker with DJ Dave at the controls. Cute kid with excellent poop potential. It was a generous weekend too as Dr Kize offered many in his employ tickets, beer and more to the Saturday event... he even offered my pizza. We attended the fun Upslope Backcountry Taproom where we took the Winter Park gondola to the alpine then hiked ~2 miles on the Top of the Rockies trail to a "taproom" built by Upslope Brewery... yeah, they served cans but it was fun; about a half dog for every person at the event (~2K folk - so a thousand dogs). Great to join Scott, Jason and their teams for an outing. World issues were raised; world problems were solved; the world stood still for a fun alpine event - well almost still, there was still a mighty queue to reach the gondola and again to retrieve beer, even in the "backcountry."