Life Is Always An Adventure................

when Glenn is around!!  Let's go camping at Buffalo Peaks this weekend he tells me FRIDAY morning as we're headed into work!!  OK - we have 2 cars in town so I can leave right at 5:00 and go home and pack the camper - Glenn has an install in Monument but says he'll leave at 4:00 at the LATEST to be home by a little after 5:00!!

 

I go home and pack up - and wait - and wait - and wait - and finally call at 6:15 and he's just leaving the jobsite............sigh.................  But we do get left at 7:40 and luckily it stays light a long time so had daylight to drive over!!

 

We missed the turnoff the first time so had to pull in and back the camper and trailer out on the highway - but Glenn is very good at that - I'm usually biting my nails!!  And then we turn in the RIGHT spot and lo and behold, it's all gated off with a big sign that says "Closed due to elk disturbance during calving"  We later read the sign CLOSELY and saw that it is closed from March 1st to June 15th - we were just TOO early!!

 

So once again, back out and this time we decided to go up the highway and go in the back way to this huge wilderness area - the road is horribly rough and by this time it's DARK!!!  We pull up to the place to go into the section we want to camp in and it's also all blocked off!!  I kind of think we weren't supposed to go to Buffalo Peaks this weekend!!!

 

Luckily there was a camper right there at the gate who helped Glenn once again get turned around - we turned on a side trail as there were no other places to camp and headed up this kind of steep, trees on each side of you road and travelled for a while, not knowing what lay ahead and I was praying there wouldn't be a tree down on the trail that would make us back up!!  We finally spotted a place to pull in which was fairly flat and we camped there for the night!!

 

It was then that I turned on the water - I had asked Glenn before we left if he filled the water tank and he said he hadn't drained it from the last time we went - it spit like it was full of air and about 1/2 glass of water came out and that was it - then Glenn remembered - he DID drain the water out.  Ok, we have 2 gallons of drinking water that I had brought and that was it for the weekend!!  Needless to say, I didn't have to do dishes!!

 

It was VERY cold that first night and I had forgotten my long johns and despise sleeping in sweat pants so I didn't have a great nights' sleep!!  Glenn took the ATV out first thing that morning and sure enough, about 1/2 mile away the road opened into a beautiful meadow with a mountain for a view - we moved there right after breakfast!!

 

Because of the huge section being closed, we didn't have many choices of trails for the weekend - but we did enjoy the few trails we did do, just riding them over and over!!

We headed up the road from our campsite and at the very end of the trail, here's what we found!

Glenn and I looked at each other and basically thought the same thing:  get the camera and take pics of this for Bob!!  So we did - and these are for you Bob!!!  Interested????

Now this place wasn't built back in the early 1900's or anything like that - probably was built 20 to 30 years ago and my oh my - this cabin was a dandy!!!  Check out the school bus in the back which IS part of the cabin - 2 stories even!!

Here's a picture of the back of the bus and the back part of the cabin.

And here's the front part of the cabin which actually isn't that bad looking!!!

Of course we had to check out the inside - it was horribly filthy from animals being in there but it was kind of strange - there was no food of course but furniture, clothes, a solar shower bag which looked quite new hanging up and a couple of beds with sheets on them - more in the old bus!!  It looked like whoever had used this camp, had just up and left for some reason, never bothering to take their stuff out of the cabin!!

And did you notice what is on the roof???  Yup - a dish satellite!!  They must have had a generator at this cabin too!!

We had fun poking around the grounds there and imagining what it would be like to actually LIVE in a cabin like that!!

All in all one fun weekend, even with a minimum of trails to go riding!!    We also did some hiking and ran into several patches of snow - and there is still plenty on the mountains too!!