6/8 - 6/9
Camping trip!
So I had a fairly BIG trip planned for this weekend- leave Friday morning early, go explore one area, do some 4wheeling, find a camping spot, do some more exploring, find a camping spot and then home. This is a departure from my usual as normally I camp with y popup, but his trip was all about 4wheeling to get to the camp spot. But as it tends to do, life gets in the way. The 2 other vehicles in the group backed out and my work schedule wasn't very conducive to along 3 day trip. But I was able to salvage a one night trip with my oldest daughter.
The trip basically started in Bailey, CO where we found a neat heritage park-
McGraw Park. It has an old caboose, a one room school house, a 2 story house and a bunk house- all of which you can go inside and get up close to. Each thing had a description of its history- most from circa 1900 or earlier.
My daughter thought she had to pose for each picture:
We explored each attraction and I read what I could while holding the leash of the dog who wanted to explore on HIS terms, not mine.
Next we headed just down the road to a place that I've driven by tons of times but never stopped:
Got a couple hot dogs for lunch and ate outside next to a waterwheel watching chipmunks and hummingbirds.
Next we headed up to Kenosha Pass and started up the
North Twin Cone mountain trail to find our camping spot. I didn't realize it until now, but the spot we picked is called "the overlook" in the link I posted.
Setting up camp:
Honestly, I love this thing:
Getting ready to cook a little dinner via the camp fire:
After we burned up all of our wood, watched a few satellites pass overhead, we decided to bag it for the night. The tent pictured above is one that I had when I was about 12 or 13 when I decided that camping with the parents was OK if I could get out of their trailer for my own place. It was a little bigger back then- now I'm taller (bigger) and have a dog and a squirmy 7 year old to share it with. I'm not sure what the elevation of his spot is, but I'd guess close to 11,000 feet- so it got cold overnight. Woke up and checked the thermometer in the truck and it was 38 degrees. Brrrrrrrrr!
We (I really) packed up camp and were on our way to the top of the trail by 7:30. The trail was pretty typical of this area- slow and bouncy due to all the rocks. Once we got up above tree line, the wind wasn't too terribly bad whipping across the tundra. We stopped at the weather station at he too and snapped a few pics.
This wire in this pic is one of the wires securing the weather station to the mountain.
My original intent was to go over Webster Pass that is off in the distance here- but as you can see, it's still snowed in and won't be clear for another few weeks.
And home just a few minutes after 10am.
All in all a good trip. Looking forward to the next one- where ever that might be!
Looks really good.
