We got to Salida to go on our pre-arranged trip on the Captain Zipline tours, but while we were eating it started to rain!  RAIN!  We have not seen rain in our part of Colorado for months and months and not even a wet snow last winter.

So having this really neat rain was well WONDERFUL!  The zip-line tour had to be canceled until the next morning at 9:30, but who cared! Salida got about 60 minutes of really nice rain.  They told us this was the first good rain they have had in a very long time.

The next morning we were at the loading dock paid and ready to go…it’s a fifteen minute drive to the mountains and canyons where the zip-lines were located.

I thought I would NOT be able to do this…..attach myself to wire and fling myself off a canyon wall to zip over the wire to the next side of the canyon….but I did it!!!!

What a hoot!

We rode all seven (counting the bunny training line)!

The group we were with was lots of fun and our guides were very good.  The whole thing was hugely fun.

I recommend it for everyone…and if you can’t stand heights…well, just keep your eyes shut!

I did for the first two…the last five were incredible!

When we got back into Salida it rained again…for 15 minutes.  How delicious it felt!

We called Misty and asked if home got any rain.

No, no rain.

Not even a dark cloud.

While we were in Salida, a fire started close to home.  That is the Pine Ridge fire at Debeque, Colorado.  (Lightening caused)

Debeque is between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, if you want to check it out on the map.

Many of you have asked how close that is to us…it’s about an hour and 15 minutes away…around 60 miles.  Grand Junction is experiencing lots of smoke from the fire, but we are up the way…. East from Grand Junction, so we only see the smoke as it bellows over the mountains and canyons west of us.

Tomorrow I will tell you about Cottonwood Springs.

Happy Monday Everyone!

Linda