introducing KADEN MICHAEL ROBINSON

The world's population was added to this morning at around 6:00 am July 30th...Grandson #3 reporting for duty!!! Congratulations Kyle, Andrea and Kaleb!!!

Got his ski hat on...ready to "bust-a-move"!!

He is thinking...do I really want to be out here...or back in there!

Playing in the Rocks

Saturday's Jeeping destination was Eagle Rock...off of Gold Camp Road...we heard there were some great Jeep Trails to be had...

My partner in crime...My son-in law Matt...he loves to play in the rocks!!

Along for the ride...Pastor Dyer, his son Cooper (what a trooper...fell alseep through parts of the trip) and Josh...,

We made this run....allot of fun!!

Pastor Dyer loves to climb his Jeep on stuff...balanced on 2 wheels....

Matt getting stuck...high centered for a moment....this is why you put in Rock Sliders!

Downhill ....



Pastor Dyer squeezing through!

Oooohhhh!

Matt' sTexas Ranger imitation...(from Talledega Nights)!

Airing up the tires for the ride home!

Colorado Camping and Jeeping---Gigi style!!

We have been working non-stop during our busiest time of the year...so we decided to get away over to SnoMass Village (near Aspen)...Gigi's idea of camping!! Got a great deal on this campsite right in the middle of the village!!! Thank you Priceline!!

Many of our conversations were about our grandsons....Kaleb, Grayson and Kaden (soon to make his appearance)...Gigi will have her hands full!!!

One thing we like to do back home is go to the Farmer's market on weekends...Aspen was having one too...

Selling furs at Farmer's Market...really!

The Maroon Bells...the most photographed scene in Colorado...This is definitely where the angels hang out...till God deploys them.

Surrounding mountains almost made the area feel like a cathedral!

At Maroon Bells...we met some climbers who scaled the North Bell...amazing! No it wasn't us!

I broke my sun/fishing glasses...too cheap too buy the $100 Aspen specials....Linda lent me a pair of her Elton John signatures...

We took the Richmond Hill Jeep Trail on our way to traverse Taylor Pass...the snow was gone and the wildfowers were everywhere...even at 11,000 feet...

Check out the cabin/house toward the bottom of this picture...this is where God actually lives!

Gotta love these views...

Nothing like a jeep trail to the top...

What is left of the snow looks like sandtraps on a golf course...

On our way to 12,600 feet!

This is a picture of the Jeep Trail that Eddie and I had to turn back due to snow covering the road 3 weeks earlier...Richmond Hill Trail hugs the ridge up top...

High alpine mountain lakes....great spots for camping...who wants to go with me?

On the east side of the pass...that is where the fun began!!!

What I love about Gigi...is she is willing to do what I want to do...SHE MUST LOVE ME!

Our version of a Chriopractic adjustment......come to Colorado and will take care of you!

I have a 4WD Jeep Trail book...Richmond Hill Trail and Taylor Pass...checked them off the list!

Summer is almost over...but this place will look amazing in the fall...come to Colorado and see us!

COLORADO BEACH CLUB

This is the Great Sand Dunes National Preserve outside of Alamosa, CO...this is a "one of a kind" place where their are mountains, desert (dunes), and a marsh/bog all in one place and all dependent on each other. Eddie and I took a day out to see what it was all about...

The dunes are surrounded by Medano Creek...which in turn creates a beach like atmoshere...Kids were playing in the creek, building sand castles...people were barbqing...throwing frisbee's...the creek was only 2 inches deep...no chance of drowning!!... great place to bring the family...and it was only 70 degrees!

Yeah that is right...Eddie wanted to go to the top...officially the highest sand dune in North America!

We checked this one off the list and added it to the resume'.

Dared Eddie to do a belly slide...he wimped out.

Sand filled my shoes to the point I had no other rooms for my toes...we soon left and jeeped our way out over Medano Pass to Westcliffe...and then to home...8 hours in a Jeep is tough!

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!!!