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Started June 19, 2009 @ 10:36am by xtreme
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| http;//bearcreekcolorado.com | June 19, 2009 @ 10:36am | | If you google, you may find me at Banded Peak or Chama Peak, also Osier mountian. Got to be cooler at 11,000 ft. |
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| http://bearcreekcolorado.com | July 23, 2009 @ 11:08pm | Two brown black bear came down Dempsey Creek Trail and into our view from the cabin. Cool. Temp 41-65, perfect.
I had to cut a fallen aspen off the trail today. This tree was almost 3feet thick at the cut. I cut 8 feet out and jammed my saw. It took the atv and a chain to retrieve my saw. Later in the day I trimmed Dempsey Creek to Sheep Creek, now the trail is good from Bear Creek to Sheep Creek.
Betty and I have atvd and Jeeped many hours on this trip. Yesterday we went up the Rio del Pinos to the end of a super rough 4x4 trail to the trail head of trail 736. The falls are about 3/4 miles up stream at a point the trail winds up thru a bluff called the first rim. There are three rimms and above each is dark timber. The highest I got was 11,600 and at that point there is beauty, green meadows surrounded by dark timber and higher mountians. The meadows are almost level and to the norteast is Red Lake about 3/4 miles, to the west and down about 400 feet are Dipping Lakes. It is estimated that only about ten people a year get to see this.
I was able to sneak up on three elk, closing to about 30 yards on a feeding cow. I got a few pictures before the wind got me. The cow never saw me but I was impressed how she trusted he nose. I had walked about three miles up so the total hike was about 6 steep miles. The maps are not acurrate so navagation is either stay on the trail or trust your gps and bushwack. I stayed on the trail because there is only one way thru the rim.
The San Juan Wilderness begins just above the first rim. Sorry no motorcycle stories but tomorrow I may go check out the Valdez, a single track from the Conejos to Willow Park and beyond. Sometimes there are limbs and trees down across the Valdez. All in all we have a lot of motorcycle trails, however riding alone in the mountians is a little concerning. |
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| July 24, 2009 @ 3:01pm | Great read Gramps one of these days I am going to see that country. Don't they call meadows Parks out there?  You gonna stay and elk hunt till the snow drive you back south? Have fun, Layne got to watch me lay my bike over yesterday. |
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