Well, day two of "overlanding alone" was today. All of my friends have gotten married, had babies or broken their rigs over the summer so nobody wants to play. This leaves me to tackle some mild trails and dirt roads in my area which is actually quite nice. I have been stocking up on amazing camp site ideas! There is a fire ban across the entire front range right now so I havent bothered camping, I dont like not having a fire, especially when camping alone and extra especially in bear/mountain lion/bobcat/coyote/rattlesnake etc. territory. :sombrero: I have been planning a one or two night overland trip south of Denver/north of Colorado Springs. The weather is so warm right now that camping is entirely possible with typical summer camping gear. The low temps along the front range arent even getting below freezing! This is good and bad depending on what you want hah.
Rabble rabble, here are sweet pictures.
Rock #1 This crazy rock had no better half. Im not sure how this happens but it was half of a rock, a really really big rock. Quite precariously perched too.
Random view from the trail
Rock #2 Now we get to "the real rock" and this is
the real rock. Im sorry if this is boring you, just wait for the following few pictures.
Yeah, I bet youre glad you waited. This rock is easily the size of the average american home, most likely bigger. Also its a campsite. The cantilever is a good 15 feet if not more. The underside is covered in soot from campfires. Its the single coolest campsite I have ever seen. I cant wait to come back and stay the night underneath this ridiculously huge rock.
Truck. Hi truck, you look nice.
Then I happened upon a geocache. It was open, on its side and its contents were blowing around in the breeze. Im not sure if a bear can open an ammo can but when youre hungry youre hungry I guess. I put the contents I could find back in and closed it and put it in a safe spot. Didnt take or leave anything, I didnt really know what geocaching was all about until I researched it this evening. Kinda cool, there was some cool stuff in there if the right person comes along.
Then I drove up a hill, in 2WD. I drove this entire "trail" in 2WD. It made things slightly more interesting. You could easily traverse this "trail" in a Subaru or any modern day nancy "SUV" type vehicle. Probably even a FWD station wagon with 4 inches of ground clearance. Its cool though, even on a Sunday it wasnt super busy here so #shrug.
Now for some random pictures that I like.
The snow-covered and cloud-shrouded peak you can see just to the right of my bumper is Pikes Peak. This spot is called Pikes View, it was amazing. There are a few camp sites along a small spine heading off the trail and they all have amazing views of Pikes to the south and the valley below/to the west.
Now you see Pikes behind the back of my truck.
One of the better lunch views Ive had.
