Colorado 2010

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Colorado, here we come!

Dates: 5 June - 13 June

I would like to head back to Buena Vista area again and hit Carnage back up, then try for Wheeler Lake again. Last trip we had talked about making it a week long trip to have more time for repairs and relaxation. Who all thinks they may be in? As of now, I have an open spot on the GN.

TOWING

Ed - 2 Rigs
Brady and 2 Road Seats
Beast
Brady and 2 Trail Seats
Swamp Donkey
1 Trail Seat

Brian - 2 Rigs
3 Road Seats???
The General
1 Trail Seat
Cruiser
1 Trail Seat

Colman - 2 Rigs???
3 Road Seats
Cj5
1 Trail Seat?
Pigpen
1 Trail Seat?

Jerry - 2 Rigs???
??? Road Seats
???
???
???
???

Colorado Crew
Creighton - 2 Rigs (you get your GN yet? :D )
Hippie? and 2-3 Road Seats from Steamboat/Denver
The Goat
1 Trail Seat?
Uglytruck
1 Trail Seat?

FLYING

Airline / Date / Time / Flight #
Southwest/

[bcolman]

I am tenatively in pending this is my off week, I also have an open spot on my gooseneck

[colman]

ooooo brian is all fancy now that he has a goosneck...... fag
i'm in if i can get off work...... whatever internship that i get

[Sharpe]

Tentatively in.

[davido]

I'll take the open spot for the Cruiser again. that worked out great last time. I'm much more likely to be able to make it if I can fly out and back. Makes for a much quicker trip for me.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Ok, sounds good.

I am pretty sure Creighton will make this one, not sure about curry yet.

[AggieTJ2007]

yeah i will be there but maybe only for the weekend don't know yet

[AggieTJ2007]

I think that we should try to hit up some other hardcore trails and just camp at the trail heads.

also there is an offroad park in Rangely, located in northern Colorado that is supposed to be pretty awesome

[JB]

Damn, that is not far off. Isn't June a little early? When did you go last year? Alot fo snow still on the trails?

[DRAGOONRANCH]

We went a week earlier last year, but the Buena Vista area is the 'bannana belt' and that is the only week that I could go with still trying to plan around TTC. There was some snow on a few trails, but not too bad. Had the beast been running correctly, we would have been able to make better progress on Wheeler Lake, and I wouldn't have had to turn around at the top of the other. No brakes and no clutch is a mother to wheel with. :laughing:

[Doug Krebs]

why not go later? A friend and I went in August and there was little to no snow left.

[JB]

I am tenatively in pending this is my off week, I also have an open spot on my gooseneck

An open spot for another heavy ass rig?

[agjohn02]

Scotti and I wheeled all that area in Sept '06 and it was still nice. Although, we did get snow on the last day and had to turn back up high since the MTRs weren't up to the snow duty. I think you'll still be busting snow in June on the high trails.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

and that is the only week that I could go with still trying to plan around TTC.


why not go later? A friend and I went in August and there was little to no snow left.

:gigem:

[JB]

I will see what I can do, but going in August or September would work alot better for me. I figured this trip was a no go this year so I was just planning my regular camping trip up there with some friends. We were tentative on Labor Day weekend.

edit: also, Rivertrip 2010 is June 12

[breckboarder55]

Wheeler Lake is not in the bannana belt, and will be under a decent amount of snow at that time. I would suggest a later date if you want to run more trails.

[Doug Krebs]

Wheeler Lake is not in the bannana belt, and will be under a decent amount of snow at that time. I would suggest a later date if you want to run more trails.

Are you sure?:flipoff2:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hA-3cmmzlSY/SkGP3epDUII/AAAAAAAABo8/mNln82rMpo0/s800/DSC_7550.JPG

[breckboarder55]

Did you make it to the top?... :rolleyes:

[Reckless]

i might make it

[AggieTJ2007]

it is already pretty warm here and snowfall has been fairly low this year

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Had the beast been running correctly, we would have been able to make better progress on Wheeler Lake, ... No brakes and no clutch is a mother to wheel with. :laughing:


Did you make it to the top?... :rolleyes:

read much :rolleyes:

It's kind of hard to bash snow when you taco your clutch linkage and have to use your starter to get you moving again...

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/46b1b787.jpg

BASH IT!!!
:flipoff2:

[DRAGOONRANCH]

it is already pretty warm here and snowfall has been fairly low this year

That seems to be what this fella is sayin too.

http://scenicbuenavista.com/april2009/colorado-scenery-photos.htm


Look at how little snow is up there. It's been a disappointing winter ... We need more snow!

Just a tidbit from their CoC


Buena Vista is properly pronounced "BEW-na Vista"
The town's name has been pronounced "BEW-na Vista" instead of the Spanish "BWAY-na Vista" ever since it was founded. Its nickname is "BEW-nie." It all came about at a meeting in 1879, when residents and property owners in the area at the convergence of Cottonwood Creek and the Arkansas River held a meeting to create a formal community. They had been told that would help attract a railroad line (eventually it attracted three). Two names were proposed by attendees: Collegiate Peaks, after the mountains in the area, and Buena Vista, which means "beautiful view" in Spanish, certainly an appropriate description.

Alsina Dearheimer, the resident and property owner who suggested the name Buena Vista, certainly knew how the Spanish words were pronounced, her first husband having been a language and music professor. But she insisted that the pronunciation for the town name be Americanized into "BEW-na," borrowing the first syllable of the English word beautiful. Her suggestion carried the day. An interesting anomaly was born, and Dearheimer became known as the Mother of BEW-na Vista. To this day long time residents carry on the tradition and say "Bewna Vista". If it is hard for visitors to swallow, it is suggested they just say "BEWNIE".

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Updated the first post w/ tentative/possible towing details.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Schedule could look something like this

5-Sat: Head out to Raton (738 miles)
6-Sun: Head out to BV (w/ a stop at Cotopaxi for some MF'n grilled cheese and fried balogna! (http://www.fremontcounty.us/cotopaxi2.jpg)) and make camp (210 miles)
7-Mon: Wheeler Lake (http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=40)
8-Tue: Holy Cross (http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=11) (~70 miles to Trailhead) or Minesweeper (http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=172) and Badger Creek (http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=171) (~36 miles)
9-Wed: Repair Day
10-Thr: Iron Chest (http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=8) and Grizzly Lake (http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=55) (30 miles)
11-Fri:Carnage Canyon (http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=178) and Chinaman's Gulch (http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=1)
12-Sat: Dia de Muertos (i.e.-cleanup, shoot the **** outa somethin and relax at the hot springs)
13-Sun:Shagass for Texas!

[bcolman]

after this last weekend i am going to have tons of work to make this, both the blazer and the trailer

a few of us were talking on the trip to katemcy, but what about a trip to hot springs and maybe clayton and then end at the river trip?

[RCcola55]

if i get the cherokee done i may be down

[uglyota]

I am going to be out of town the weekend of the 12th/13th, but I have Friday the 4th off. Creighton and I were thinking that Holy Cross would be fun that weekend. I could pick people up in Denver Friday morning and drive to the Rangely off road park for some stupid human/truck tricks Friday evening/Saturday, then saturday afternoon we could work our way over to Holy Cross (just west of Vail Pass) and run that Sunday. Creighton and I would then head home and you guys would head over to Frisco, catch Hwy 9 through breckenridge and meet up with 285 in Fairplay, then head on down to Buena Vista.
You guys should really do Holy Cross if you can make the logistics work. It is stupid fun. It is the embodiment of an awesome trail by any definition.
And yes it's been a rough year for snow. That area got like 2 decent storms this year.

[AggieTJ2007]

I like erics plan I think that everyone would really enjoy rangely

[DRAGOONRANCH]

after this last weekend i am going to have tons of work to make this, both the blazer and the trailer

a few of us were talking on the trip to katemcy, but what about a trip to hot springs and maybe clayton and then end at the river trip?

I have already been looking into this. Looks like there is an event in Hot Springs that weekend also w/ a meal and raffle.

4-Fri: Head out to Hot Springs (390 miles)
5-Sat: Wheel Superlift ORP (http://www.orvpark.com/) (This is the Razorback Land Cruisers open event weekend / $80 for the weekend w/ a meal and raffle Sat. night (http://www.razorbacklandcruisers.com/ramble.asp))
6-Sun: Wheel Superlift ORP (http://www.orvpark.com/) (return home for some)
7-Mon: Repairs and Travel Day to Clayton (173 miles 'through the woods')
8-Tue: Wheel Clayton
9-Wed: Wheel Clayton
10-Thr: Wheel Clayton
11-Fri: Travel Day to Gruene (442 Miles) / Party night in Gruene
12-Sat: Float the River
13-Sun: Shagass home (150 miles)

EDIT: We could even take a trip up to Disney from Hot Springs

[uglyota]

ah, that's coo. maybe we'll catch up with you guys next year?
:flipoff2:

[DRAGOONRANCH]

:laughing:
I caught a lot of flak for starting the planning so early last year, and now it seems it's too late to get everyone on board in time. I like your idea hippie, but there is no way in hell I will be able to make it up to rangley by that friday as I don't get in until wednesday at noonish.

[jerryg79]

I'm out this year. Vegas instead.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

boooo

[FJAggie07]

I will be at Superlift that weekend for the Razorback ramble thing so that is my vote. :D

[jerryg79]

boooo

sorry, i'll be happy to pass along the blue prints for my Super Sh!tter though!

[DRAGOONRANCH]

sorry, i'll be happy to pass along the blue prints for my Super Sh!tter though!

That's all fine and dandy, but are you gonna leave dougie poo behind to build it and instruct everyone on it's use??? :D

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I will be at Superlift that weekend for the Razorback ramble thing so that is my vote. :D

I have a feeling that it will work out better for us to head that way. Would be nice to see everyone at the river too. I haven't floated in ~8 years. :(

[JB]

Logistically, the Hot Springs/Clayton trip would work better for me, and I wouldn't need to find a tow. I would probably just take Fri-Tues off, hopefully getting in 1-2 days at Clayton, return home to save some vacation days, and then hit up the river that wknd.

[Seth]

I am tenatively in, pending what the final itnerary is. I am planning on heading down to the coast the wknd of the 11-13, and Colorado appeals more to me than the others (better weather and scenery) Also Clayton during the week, might be kinda cool, but I would also like to see as many new places as possible. Seems like a lot of time at clayton considering we have all been there and are familiar.

[bcolman]

instead of clayton we could go to disney

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I have heard (and seen some bad ass videos from there) good things about disney and would def. be down for heading up that way. It wouldn't be any more of a drive (time wise) from Hot Springs I don't think.