Summit Fun In The Sun ~ Encouraged Kala To The Nest 04Jun26-07Jun26

Kala and I headed to Summit for some days out of the heat along the Front Range. We planned some events and had a great times with Matt visits, the Vail Mtn Games, beers @ ORB, hiking the Eagles Nest Wilderness, watching F1 @ Monaco, and fishing 10 Mile Ck. Our backyard...

Wed 03Jun26-Thu 04Jun26 ~ Visiting Matt In Den  & Hiking "Kala's Trail"... we stopped in the DTC to visit TK on the way. Mostly "hi" and "bye" but we would see him again on the other end. All's well in the tough coding world. We decided to hike on Thu and defer our visit to Vail to Friday. We did a 5 mile loop in the White River NF and Eagle's Nest Wild in our backyard. It was nice being out hiking the wild with Kala again ~ knees did not fail and hip flexor stayed sane. Dillon Rez is very low and will not fill ~ Frisco even closed their marina for this season. I tried to find a way to hike all the way down to ORB but we decided to drive. We stopped at the new Tiki Bar (new operator Steep) at Dillon Marina to check it out - nice and there's a stage now for live music and Steep's beers are approved.

Fri 05Jun26 ~ The Vail Mountain Games... With the weak snowpack the runoff into Gore Ck did not swell the stream enough to host the water sports (which were moved to Glenwood Spgs on the Colorado). Still the games are fun and we especially like seeing the dog events. Big Air champion was a greyhound named Mayhem and Dueling Dogs champ was a black lab named Ace, nosing out a golden named Brianna. We heard a bit of music just walking around the games but chose against seeing bands at the Ford Amp this time. I did catch Kala checking some math with Rocky (Hail Mary reference) during our visit.

Sat 06Jun26 ~ Monaco GP Qualifying & Race... One of the best hours in motorsport is the qualifying for Monaco. This is a tight track with tons of turns and walls in your face... so, there are few passing opportunities during the grand prix, placing a premium on quali position. The pole sitter at Monaco wins the race 70% of the time. It was very exciting to watch on the NestMT, though Apple has added plenty of advertising over prior F1 channel viewing pleasure. Max threw down a blistering lap late in the final qualifying session but Kimi bested him by 4msec to take pole. I slept through the early race on Sunday but was regaled of it's many penalties and race car failures. Kimi basically went wire-to-wire from pole. My un-rebuilt team fell from 2nd to nearly last in Alpine Rippers F1 fantasy league.

Sat 06Jun26 ~ Fishing 10 Mile Ck... My back was oddly blown yesterday but the hot tub really helped so I chose to head out to fish 10Mile Ck during this odd flowing (~100cfs) spring this afternoon. I hit the Copper Mtn area of the stream then went downstream to the Officer's Gulch area. I had a decent outing and caught a number of 10" browns and a couple of similarly-sized rainbows, it was a decent double handled well on the Rodfather True 3 v2. I was all sub-surface but a decent brown hit my bobber. Best flies on the day were the oil can Perdigon, the Wired Ice caddis, and the MHFBPT. 

Sun 07Jun26 ~ Visit With Matt... After the Monaco GP we packed up and cleaned up and headed down to the Front Range. We made seared tuna steaks with salad for us at Matt's place on Hampden, and he provided spicy quinoa! I finally scored my Cars & Canyons sticker for the FlyBox and adorned it.