Mallory Cave Hike

As we often note on our blog, we love getting the boys out on a good hike.  Here is another trail that we had never taken them on: Mallory Cave.  This one starts up at NCAR and then climbs quite steeply up the hillside.  Here is a picture at the very beginning overlooking the beautiful flatirons.

The guys took off ahead as they usually do.  We managed to slow them down for a forced picture before they managed to hurt themselves or got too hot and thirsty.

The hike itself is relatively short and only an hour or an hour and a half on the way up.  This is actually right below the cave.  Bats live within this particular cave and, due to the risk of humans exposing them to some diseases, they have closed off the cave entrance these days.  It turned out to be a bit anti-climactic for the boys but I think they always enjoy getting out.

Here is a view looking out over Boulder from the cave point. (Aw, I love that one! ~Mama)