Colorado 2010

[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?

[breckboarder55]

Did you make it to the top?...

[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.

Did you make it to the top?...

read much

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...



BASH IT!!!

[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/april200...ery-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!) and make camp (210 miles)
7-Mon: Wheeler Lake
8-Tue: Holy Cross (~70 miles to Trailhead) or Minesweeper and Badger Creek (~36 miles)
9-Wed: Repair Day
10-Thr: Iron Chest and Grizzly Lake (30 miles)
11-Fri:Carnage Canyon and Chinaman's Gulch
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 (This is the Razorback Land Cruisers open event weekend / $80 for the weekend w/ a meal and raffle Sat. night)
6-Sun: Wheel Superlift ORP (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?