3 kids
2 dogs
3 weeks in CO
Priceless!





I'll try to update as my wife sends me photos. Sadly I don't join my family for a week.

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We did that from Big D last year. We stayed in Telluride and did all the trails but Big Bear since it rained hard. We then went to Moab on a long day trip 4am to 11 PM back to Telluride. We stayed at a condo with a washer and dryer so we packed light and enabled showers every night for the kiddos and us. Have fun!

 

Thank you!! We have friends with a condo in the upper ski area. Never stayed there, just went for the day. Our house is literally up and over the mountain NE of Ouray. The Fam is snuggled in to sleep in Alamosa.

Breakfast stop in Wichita Falls:




Though the house has washer and drier, we pack fairly heavy. Big thing is the 14gallon gas can on the roof, cooler on the cargo tray. 85lbs Golden takes up the whole back area. Packed two full size hammocks with wooden ends. We'll leave one there though. Big soft-sided luggage bag that we pack all our clothes in trash bags. Packed 6person base-camp tent as my girls want to camp a night or two up in West Fork.

They picked a GREAT time to leave Dallas...forecast is 100+ every day for the next week! Yuck!

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Lucky, this is the first summer in 6 years we will not be getting to go and our new 2014 Rubi is begging to go. Oh well, consolation trip is Key West!

 

On plane to Grand Junction, CO.
My wife leaves the house the same time we take off. I miss her and my girls....been 8 days. Longest we've ever been apart in over 14 years!

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TX Panhandle




NM



CO




Grand Junction




My Taxi




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Hope you had fun. Post up some pics for those if us not getting out to CO this year. I need a Jeeping fix.

 

Unloading the Gobi Courthouse Mountain Trail Spent today over in Ouray. Left the house 8:45am and ran Corkscrew to Hurricane Pass, California Gulch and California Pass. Went up to Engineer Pass, turned around and went back to Ouray for the annual icecream in a waffle come treat at the Ouray Candy Store that is at the south end of town. Did some quick shopping then headed north to Ridgeway. Up and over Owl Creek Pass, past Silver Jack Resevoir, and back at the house by 5pm. Took VERY few photos as it rained most of the time. Got stuck behind seven range rovers on an expedition. Appeared fully loaded including street tires. They were called something like "Great Divide Expedition." A couple had manufacture plates. They were SLOW!!!

Ahh, found this link: http://newsroom.jaguarlandrover.com/...de_expedition/

It mentions the raffled rover may be in the trip...it wasn't. At least not on today's leg.



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Photo of the Range Rovers:




Jeep at the top if Engineer Pass




In the way to Animas:




Advert for The North Face




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I wonder if the Rovers were part of the group that does the "Great a Divide Challenge". The guy that puts that on runs a pretty damn good deal. For $2500, you get all meals covered, a guide for the group and a new set of tires for your rig.