| BY JOHN MEYER, JMEYER@DENVERPOST.COM
Hey there, outdoors folks! If you're looking for something to do this weekend, I suggest you consider heading to Outside Days at the Auraria Campus. It's a party, a film and music festival, and a place to hear compelling speakers share thought-provoking ideas. I think the discussion that El Capitan free solo climber Alex Honnold will have with Mount Everest skier Jim Morrison will be fascinating. For details, see the story below. Heads upHigh temperatures this weekend in the metro area
will be 78 to 81 degrees with sunny skies and a chance of thunderstorms. The high country can expect temperatures in the 50s on Friday, 40s on Saturday and 50s on Sunday. 
The Outside Festival, which attracted 35,000 people last year, moves to the Auraria Campus for year three this weekend. It has been renamed Outside Days. (Provided by the Outside Festival)
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Worth Your Time
Huge crowds descended on Yosemite National Park this month following the elimination of the park’s reservation system.
A long line of hikers formed on a steep section near the summit of Half Dome, as seen in this photo taken last October. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
Get Yourself Outdoors
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
as seen from above on the Mount Morrison trail, about halfway from the trailhead to the summit. (John Meyer/The Denver Post)
Mount Morrison is steep and rocky, mimicking conditions on state’s highest peaks, but much closer to home MORE HEADLINES DOG OF THE WEEK Sammy "He
used to be absolutely terrified of everything but is now living in the mountains above Red Rocks in Colorado, living his best life," owner Natalie Bonthron writes. If you want your pup featured, email a photo and short description to tfries@denverpost.com. 
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