howdy folks, welcome to golden

That's the motto that graces the downtown strip in my hometown of Golden, CO.  This past weekend, Kalin and I spent some time there and I realized how great of a little town it is.

Fall has definitely arrived in the metro area and it feels so nice outside, you can't stay inside.  To kick off our day in Golden, we started with a hike up South Table Mountain (which is more of a plateau).  We hiked up what felt like a drainage trail up the face of the castlerock which was a bit steep at times, but the pay off was amazing once we got to the top:

This is the view of the town of Golden, very quaint and slightly lazy-feeling.  The top of the mountain has a large staircase from when there used to a beer garden up at the top that people took an old cog rail to get there.  After our descent, we headed to the town for some delicious sandwiches at D'Deli and a sweet treat at the Sweet Shoppe.  We poked around the farmer's market and decided it was a pretty good day.  We're hoping to keep up our weekend hikes to ultimately attempt a 14er (hopefully before the snow comes).