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TWT member Jerry James (lobo 10s) sent me a note that he had some vacation days to burn and suggested a run to the Dragon/Cherohala. I'm still a little spooked by the Virus crowds so I suggested Colorado camping. On our own, no crowds no restaurants.
We snagged some tent sites with electricity at the Gunnison KOA and did out rides from that home base. Yeah, we did the Black Canyon. Rode up to Hotchkiss, Panoia and Redstone. Grabbed a deli sandwich and ate out along the river.
Severe drought in Colo and the Paonia Reservoir along 133 is dry. The lake South of Crawford on 92 is the size of a good Texas stock pond. Blue Mesa outside Gunnison on Hwy 50 is down to about half strength.
Another highlight, we rode CO114 down to Del Norte (not the one in Godley TX), over to South Fork, Creede, Lake City for a short lunch in Lake City. Only one spot open in LC, and they were just about out of everything. We should've ate in Creede.
All breakfasts and dinners were at camp in Gunny. We had "Hot Mess" every morning. You've seen it on those Dinners/Dives shows on TV. The diner cook takes bacon, sausage, eggs, hashbrowns, onion, peppers, etc... all chopped up into one pile and scooped up with grilled tortillas as your spoon. Yum! Burgers, dogs and stuff like that were for dinner every night.
Jerry brought his Jeep and one morning that was particularly frosty, we hit Mickey D's and had our hot gourmet
breakfast on the trails above Crested Butte. Spent the whole day up there.
Daytime temps = mid 70's and the chilly nights were in the low to mid 30's. Did I mention we had electricity? I brought my electric blanket with me. We were roughing it after all.
We snuck out and didn't tell our riding buddies we were going. Such bad boys. But we can tell them now it was a perfect week long trip to Texas' largest state park!
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We snagged some tent sites with electricity at the Gunnison KOA and did out rides from that home base. Yeah, we did the Black Canyon. Rode up to Hotchkiss, Panoia and Redstone. Grabbed a deli sandwich and ate out along the river.
Severe drought in Colo and the Paonia Reservoir along 133 is dry. The lake South of Crawford on 92 is the size of a good Texas stock pond. Blue Mesa outside Gunnison on Hwy 50 is down to about half strength.
Another highlight, we rode CO114 down to Del Norte (not the one in Godley TX), over to South Fork, Creede, Lake City for a short lunch in Lake City. Only one spot open in LC, and they were just about out of everything. We should've ate in Creede.
All breakfasts and dinners were at camp in Gunny. We had "Hot Mess" every morning. You've seen it on those Dinners/Dives shows on TV. The diner cook takes bacon, sausage, eggs, hashbrowns, onion, peppers, etc... all chopped up into one pile and scooped up with grilled tortillas as your spoon. Yum! Burgers, dogs and stuff like that were for dinner every night.
Jerry brought his Jeep and one morning that was particularly frosty, we hit Mickey D's and had our hot gourmet
breakfast on the trails above Crested Butte. Spent the whole day up there.
Daytime temps = mid 70's and the chilly nights were in the low to mid 30's. Did I mention we had electricity? I brought my electric blanket with me. We were roughing it after all.
We snuck out and didn't tell our riding buddies we were going. Such bad boys. But we can tell them now it was a perfect week long trip to Texas' largest state park!
SS
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Have they finally finished that? I've still not managed to to that pass.
