Fall Trip #1

 If you're not a fall fan, you might want to skip the next few blogs!!  I absolutely love taking photos of the aspens, even though many of them are probably the same every few years!  We knew the leaves might not be great this year, due to the snow and 3 nights of  freezing weather, but you never know until you get on the trails and start looking!

We decided to camp this last week and save our couple of "cabin" nights till the next week since we knew fall was running about a week late for peak leaves!  I always love doing Marshall Pass and over by Sargents so Glenn decided we would just camp over on Poncha Pass!  We found a great spot in the trees that wasn't too hard to get to and took a ride that first evening!

I always like going through the tiny town of Bonanza!  There's not much to see there at all but it's a quaint little town and it always make me wonder if there are people that actually live there year round!

We stopped at Mosquito Lake - and remembered why it's called that!!  Yes there are mosquitos there and it's really not that pretty of a lake!

After we left Bonanza, we stopped so I could take pictures of this view which turned out to be my FAVORITE picture of the trip!!  I love the way the storm clouds look with those aspens in the middle of the picture just set it off!  We even ate at our lunch there just so we could stare at the view!

We'd had a tire issue on the Razor a couple of weeks ago so Glenn had patched it and hoped it would hold - it didn't!  When we stopped once, we could see the tire was almost flat!  Luckily he has a small air compressor that he carries so he got it pumped up and off we went!  Little did we know that we would have to stop about every 1/2 hour to pump it back up!!

We had a great day riding and the last 1/2 hour was in the rain!  By the time we got back to camp, it had rained quite a bit and was actually muddy out!  But we sure didn't complain because it's so dry over in that area!!

Of course we couldn't have a campfire and haven't been able to have one all summer - that's disappointing.....But we still got to enjoy the great outdoors!