DISAPPEARING IN COLORADO!

My brother Eddie...works too much! So we put a week on the calendar and disappeared in the the wilds of the Colorado High Country...our destination...Grizzly Reservoir...off of Independence Pass...Hwy 82 on the way to Aspen, CO.

We packed the Jeep and busted a move!

My camera overexposed most of these pics...but you can see we had the choice spot and were practically the only ones in the campground ... elevation...10,500 feet.

Grizzly Reservoir is a high altitude fishing destination...

We camped about 20 yds from this stream...no box fan could match the sounds of a mountain stream!!! Slept in practically a coma...first night it was 32 degrees...in the tent!


The road to the Ruby Mine and Ghost Town was closed...so we set out for a 11 mile hike roundtrip...never got there...turned around after 4 miles when we saw dark clouds and heard thunder...not my idea of fun getting caught on a mountain at 11,000 feet...with lightening.



This is a time exposure we took of the reservoir at dusk. Stars were as abundant as what Abraham saw...incredible viewing at 10,500 ft.

Here is a general area of where we went...Jeep roads to get there!!! And I have a Jeep!


One of the mining ghost towns we went to...there are allot of them and a great destination to Jeep to.
On our way home we took a Jeep trail to get over Taylor Pass...

Stopped to take a picture...

Before we ran into snow covering the trail...this is almost July folks!

Eddie is 6'3"...behind this snow bank... it looked like clear sailing to the top... but we had to go back from where we came!!

I am on the road...a fair ways below...we had to back the Jeep up about 200 yards on a single, rocky trail...Eddie directed me down...that way only one of us dies if we go over the edge!!

Marmot's live above the tree-line...

Beaver dam...
Eddie inspecting how much damage on the guardrails...amazing they held with the pounding they take.
At Indepedence Pass...another over exposed picture...I need lessons!

We are official!

When we got back we took a trail near the house that I never been on...and found this waterfall!

A view from about half way up the cliff...

Lightening and rain again had us off the mountain in record time...

We are already planning next year...a longer, more daring, adventure trip...around the campfire we were talking about the day we can bring Kaleb, Grayson, Kaden and their Dads on a Mancation!!!