re: new to colorado

while quandary is not difficult, sherman makes it seem like everest. I think we were 3 hours car to car. Quandary is much better though.

I lived in denver for a few years. My best advice is never lose sight of the fact that the stuff you get to do after work and on the weekends is the stuff that less fortunate souls all over the world plan dream vacations to come do. You never know when she'll drag you back to where ever it is she's from.

After work:
mountain biking: pick a JeffCo open space but my favorites were centennial cone, lair o' the bear, watterton canyon to some loop involving the colorado trail, buffalo creek on the weekends. Tons of other good ones, we sucked so these all had relatively easy riding. If you're good or want to carry your bike a lot while watching better riders, check out dakota ridge. For a longer weekend ride, kenosha pass to georgia pass and then either back to the car or on to breck is awesome as is monarch crest.

Rock climbing:
north table mountain, clear creek canyon, boulder canyon, eldo will keep you busy for years. The flat irons aren't the best climbing but you need to do at least the 1st and 3rd once. Check out mountainproject.com

Hiking: pick a JeffCo open space.

Fishing: south platte

Once you hit the weekend, you're options really open up. Great Sand Dunes and Black Canyon of the Gunnison are two cool national parks that don't get much traffic. Get out to the Moab area a couple times, ski silverton, backpack the 4-pass loop near aspen, RMNP, 14ers, yada yada...what do you like to do and we may have more specific suggestions?