Colorado 3rd Year 7-30-2023
BRIGHAM CITY, UT TO KENNEWICK, WA HOME STRETCH! Sunday July 30th: Driving ( Brigham City, UT to Tri Cities, WA) (9hrs, 572 mi) (Home!!) We did it we were up and rolling by 7ish, and I think all of us were ready to just be home. Mandi & I missed our dogs we left...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-29-2023
MEEKER, CO TO BRIGHAM CITY, UT ON THE BACKROADS… Saturday July 29th: Driving backroads Meeker to Brigham City (2 lane highways 391 miles – 8hrs?) So we got an early start (for us) and were rolling around 8ish, leaving Meeker we traveled first to a little hamlet...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-28-2023
SOUTH FORK MEADOWS TO MEEKER? Fri July 28th: Epic Camp in South Fork Meadows to Meeker – 75 miles? (All Day) Wow! Waking up and making an incredible breakfast, enjoying coffee in the clean mountain air – That’s the life! Now it was time to get serial, we had to break...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-27-2023
Coffee Pot Road, Grizzly Jeep Trail, and Budge's Resort Thu July 27th: Dispersed camp - ??? South Fork Meadows (All Day) We woke up (or at least Mandi did) for sunrise pictures, me sometime later and decided on a quick breakfast and camp breakdown. We had no real way...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-26-2023
WINTER PARK-COFFEE POT ROAD WED JULY 26th: Winter Park/Fraser/Idaho Springs/Breckenridge/Wolcott – Then we hit a trail? (226 mi~8-9 hrs) (Dispersed Camping) Today Julia (chassis) hit 150,000 miles! Not bad for a big girl on her 2nd engine and transmission! Today...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-25-2023
TRAPPER’S LAKE TO WINTER PARK… Tue July 25th: Trapper’s Lake to Winter Park, CO (226 mi~8-9 hrs) (Hotel) So not starting on schedule, due to stopping early at Trapper’s Lake, and not realizing how far we put ourselves behind. We rolled out looking for the overlook...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-24-2023
SLEEPY CAT CAMP TO TRAPPER’S LAKE… Mon July 24th: Sleepy Cat Camp To Sheriff’s Reservoir Campground 75 mi -5 hrs (9800’) I had mapped our trip, so wanting to try and catch all the cool trails, I had found another way out of Sleepy Cat that was just as challenging...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-23-2023
DINNER IN MEEKER COLORADO, THEN FIND CAMP! Sunday July 23rd: Driving/Overlanding: Brigham City, UT to Meeker, CO (~8 hrs, 380-402 mi) Camping Sleepy Cat Camp (Disbursed 10,000’) So we got a late start, which would end the day with another late finish. We had...
Colorado 3rd Year 7-22-2023
COLORADO AGAIN? YEP, OUR THIRD YEAR IN A ROW! Let’s Begin… Colorado is so beautiful we selected it as our out of state trip once again. The original plan was mostly overlanding with a few hotel stops, we’d be out for a total of nine days (so this will be a series),...
Chinaman’s Gulch Videos
Since I'm not yet sure how many parts this will end up, I'm creating a post for these videos separate from the run report. So stay tuned and revisit often to view all of the series here. Oh and yes they're shorter that the Holy Cross video... CHINAMAN’S GULCH Part 1...