Camping (and Paragliding) in Glenwood Springs

This weekend (well, Sunday and Monday), we headed up to Glenwood Springs. Nate's step dad, Dave has always wanted to go paragliding, so for his birthday that is exactly what Nate's mom got him. The flight was scheduled for Monday morning so on Sunday we headed up the mountain to camp the night before. It was our first time camping with Riley and we considered it our test run before our big group camping trip coming up in a couple weeks. We camped outside of the Dotsero exit just before Glenwood Canyon. We were hoping since we where there on a Sunday that we would luck out and get a camping sites near the stream but they were all taken so we camped a little higher up the road. It ended up working out really well. Although we didn't have the shade of the trees, there was lots of space for the dogs to run and we had a great view of the I-70 valley.
This was actually the first time we had camped with Nate's parents. Pauline made chicken stir-fry for dinner and after we put Riley to bed, the rest of us played cribbage in the van. Riley was sleeping very well in the tent but shortly after we went to bed he woke up. The rest of the night was spent trying to get him to go back to sleep both in his pack-n-play and in the speeping bag with me. Needless to say, I don't think I actually feel asleep until after the sun was starting to come up.
See more camping photos here.
After a sleepless night, the next morning, we got up early and packed up so we could be in Glenwood Springs by 8:30 for Dave's flight. When we arrived at the meeting place (the landing site) we learned that there was an opening for one more so Nate decided to go too. The company is called Adventure Paragliding and the couple who owns it spends part of the year in Glenwood Springs and part in Mexico. It's about a 2,000 feet between the launch site and the landing site. Nate and Dave had a blast, I hope that I'll be able to try it someday. See all the pictures of Dave and Nate's flights here.

(Nate coming in to land)