South Park

Craig and Becky decided to head back to Iowa the next morning!  It was cold and dreary out and after a quick breakfast, we all headed out!

The drive up Slumgollian Pass was gorgeous, even with all the clouds hanging low that day!!  We stopped at the scenic pull off and I snapped pictures in between raindrops!!

The drive on into South Park was beautiful!  We stopped in Creede at the Visitor Center and armed ourselves with maps and brochures as we hadn't ATV'd this area before!

At South Park, we stopped along a stream to eat our lunch and were surprised to see a sheep drive along the railway tracks on the other side - there must have been at least 500 sheep being herded by a guy on a horse - interesting!!!

We decided to ATV for about 3 hours but it wasn't a fun time - the road was extremely rough getting up to the next road and about 1/2 way up it started misting out which eventually turned to rain!  Even though we put on our rain gear, it was miserable.  Our map didn't really show the area we were in so we talked to some hunters on how to get back down without doing the rough trail - they told us the wrong direction to go but luckily Glenn figured out how to get back down and it was a long journey back in the rain!!

I was very glad to get out of the sopping wet rain gear and head to our cabin for the night which was in town.  The cabin was great - extremely spacious and one of the nicest we have stayed in!  We headed out that evening to eat Mexican which was very good and enjoyed our evening!

Thursday morning we headed out to ATV another trail  and guess what we ran into - the same sheep herd that we saw the day before!!  We actually were behind all the sheep as they were traveling the road and we decided to go another way and see if we could miss them.   The other road we took did take us to where we were supposed to be and we beat the sheep herd!!! There weren't a lot of aspens on the trail and the road was pretty rocky - Glenn thought he pulled a couple of muscles so he was sore and in pain by the time we got back to the car - guess it was time to head home and heal for the next trip!