Taking Colorado By Storm... Literally!
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| Fianally moving down the road and noticing some flat-top hills in the distance. |  |
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| Then, a frantic David get's on the radio and tells me he's pulling over. I immediately assume it's the law, but as it turns out, David's trailer tire tread decided to take a vacation. |  |
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| Once in Colorado, we immediately recon the city to get our bearings. Then David's Jeep decides to overheat and die on a trail. At first, we assumed that he was out of gas and came back to the house to get the gas cans. That's when my son, Jake, took control of the camera and started snapping some pics. |  |
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| We were staying at my Grandfather's house in Creede. Here you can see the house with all our tow rigs and Jeeps out front. |  |
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| On Monday, we all headed out to go play on some of the trails in the area. There was this hill off the highway that gave us a nice view of the valley where the house is. In the foreground, you can see the Creede airport in the same valley. |  |
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| On our way up to Bachelor City, Jake noticed a little trail off to the left. So naturally, we had to go investigate. There was a nice little area that looked to be used as a camp site, with a beautiful view of the area. |  |
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| Continuing on up the mountain, we found an old town called Bachelor City (N37 52.782 W106 56.387 Elev. 10,732). There's not much left of Bachelor these days. This is where I started getting short-of-breathe due to the altitude. |  |
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| Almost to the top of San Luis Peak. This is about 12,000 ft. |  |
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| At the top of the mountain. This is San Luis Peak (N37 57.810 W106 59.223), elevation 12,890 ft according to the GPS. I didn't know it at the time, but we crossed the continental divide to get to this point. |  |
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| Faub taking in the beautiful scenery |  |
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| While the temperature was over 100º in Texas, it was a brisk 55º at the top of this mountain. The wind chill made it considerably cooler. Tanner decided he'd hang out in the Jeep to keep warm. |  |
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| My Dad and I in my trademark photo... |  |
| I made sure this picture was taken quickly as there was a sharp rock digging into my gluteus maximus... |  |
| Jake and I in trademark photo... |  |
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| Heading back down the mountain, Gordon found this bag of chips in his Jeep. Looks a little swollen due to altitude change... |  |
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| A picturesque view of Creede, Colorado. |  |
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| Group photo of the whole crew. Left to right: Gordon, Tanner, Oscar, Jake, David, Ray |  |
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| Trail entrance to Wheeler ( |  |
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| That's Wheeler in the background. (N37 52.325 W106 47.273) |  |
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| Once again, it started to rain as we were at the highest point. It made for quite a muddy trek back down the mountain. |  |
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| Dang, that was my favorite t-shirt! |  |
| I'd always heard that it was very dry in Colorado during the Summer time. I call BS! It rained almost every day we were there. |  |
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