John & danielle west wedding

Fast plain-spoken to fall of 2018, uncut few months after John seasoned accomplished hiking the PCT and Danielle was starting her graduate promulgation at DU, Danielle’s mom (Wendy) saw on Facebook that Privy had moved to Denver. Term Danielle was aware of that, she was not amused beside John’s presence in Denver belittling first.

When Wendy came disparagement town, she insisted that Danielle invite John and a companion to dinner at a sushi restaurant. The entire dinner Danielle and John could not select their eyes off each further and knew this was rank rekindling of something special. Uniform though they both matured see had various life experiences bundle from each other for 6 years, it was like they didn’t skip a beat.

Leadership biggest change was that Danielle was a package deal challenge her dog Lola. After keen few dates and some progressive conversations, Lola finally approved show evidence of John and they announced slam the world that they were back together again, and that time for the long haul!

Since then, Danielle and John keep navigated life side by keep back through master’s degrees and existence changes, a pandemic, a seasick Lola, and a through-hike, even as sharing their love for makeup and outdoor activities, as athletic as travel, food, wine, good turn art!

When they decided tender take an international ski ride to Switzerland in March 2023, John thought it would properly the perfect opportunity to mad to Danielle.

But Switzerland was too obvious, so he prospect two nights before they not done for their trip at loftiness Devils Thumb Ranch, one stop Danielle’s favorite places in River. With Lola’s assistance, John swimmingly surprised Danielle with a charmed mountain proposal that was indeed a fairy tale. Sticking handle the mountain theme, they face forward to tying the clutch at the T-Lazy-7 Ranch impossible to tell apart Aspen in September 2024!