YukonMontanaTannerTrapper
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Arjan.....my guess is that the family that buys that property will build a huge multi million dollar home there and then restore that cabin as guest quarters possibly.....it would be an amazing homestead.....
Ace.....yea we are back in the mountains of Utah now where the nights are also cold.....locals in Colorado told me that our timing couldn't have been better. We arrived after the fall foliage was gone and before the ski slopes opened.....and we experienced unseasonably nice weather.....
JD.....one day was perfect for us.....it's a national park so.....
ITTOG.....this visit to Colorado was by far my favorite.....it's hard to believe how beautiful Colorados mountains are & the people I met this time were incredibly nice. I guess the biggest difference I see between Colorado and Montana has to do with population.....Colorado has six million residents while Montana has one million. And Montana is 50 % larger in land mass.....so.....
tgil.....I loved the drive getting there.....it must have something to do with where we started from.....
dogman1911.....thanks for posting. I tried to remember your name but of couse I could not. I only could remember "dog". It was good to speak with you and your wife.....speaking is something I don't do much of anymore..... so thanks for stopping.....
It was in the late 70's when I found myself in a 4 seat Cessna aircraft flying over the Amazon jungle. The plane was owned by catholic missionaries and I had bummed a ride.....I was not there to spread the word of God.....I was a young, wide eyed volunteer there to help the indigenous people of the jungle identify the boundaries of their lands.....a concept that they struggled to comprehend. The plane landed on a small grass airstrip and before it could come to a complete stop a wheel stuck in a soft patch in the grassy runway, the plane lunged to the left and the plane then took a nose dive. I thought at that moment in time that we were in deep ******** but we self rescued that day and lived to tell the story. I've had many adventures over the years and I've traveled quite a bit but one thing I can say for myself after all these years.....I've never needed to be rescued.....and I value that quite a bit.....I've often looked back at what was a life changing event for me early in my life and I tend to think that it's been a major force in my life since.....
We were up early the following morning as Tanner & I had plans to climb Engineer Peak (12,972').....
It was cold that morning.....and I do mean really, really cold.....
The trails had yet begun to thaw so we carefully hiked up the mountain through the snow & ice covered trails.....
It was looking to be a great day for a climb.....
As the trail climbed higher up that mountain and we left the shaded forests below, I had hoped that the ice & snow would by now be melting.....
Unfortunately we had started too early in the day and the melting that one might expect with the rising sun had not yet begun.....
Ace.....yea we are back in the mountains of Utah now where the nights are also cold.....locals in Colorado told me that our timing couldn't have been better. We arrived after the fall foliage was gone and before the ski slopes opened.....and we experienced unseasonably nice weather.....
JD.....one day was perfect for us.....it's a national park so.....
ITTOG.....this visit to Colorado was by far my favorite.....it's hard to believe how beautiful Colorados mountains are & the people I met this time were incredibly nice. I guess the biggest difference I see between Colorado and Montana has to do with population.....Colorado has six million residents while Montana has one million. And Montana is 50 % larger in land mass.....so.....
tgil.....I loved the drive getting there.....it must have something to do with where we started from.....
dogman1911.....thanks for posting. I tried to remember your name but of couse I could not. I only could remember "dog". It was good to speak with you and your wife.....speaking is something I don't do much of anymore..... so thanks for stopping.....
It was in the late 70's when I found myself in a 4 seat Cessna aircraft flying over the Amazon jungle. The plane was owned by catholic missionaries and I had bummed a ride.....I was not there to spread the word of God.....I was a young, wide eyed volunteer there to help the indigenous people of the jungle identify the boundaries of their lands.....a concept that they struggled to comprehend. The plane landed on a small grass airstrip and before it could come to a complete stop a wheel stuck in a soft patch in the grassy runway, the plane lunged to the left and the plane then took a nose dive. I thought at that moment in time that we were in deep ******** but we self rescued that day and lived to tell the story. I've had many adventures over the years and I've traveled quite a bit but one thing I can say for myself after all these years.....I've never needed to be rescued.....and I value that quite a bit.....I've often looked back at what was a life changing event for me early in my life and I tend to think that it's been a major force in my life since.....
We were up early the following morning as Tanner & I had plans to climb Engineer Peak (12,972').....
It was cold that morning.....and I do mean really, really cold.....
The trails had yet begun to thaw so we carefully hiked up the mountain through the snow & ice covered trails.....
It was looking to be a great day for a climb.....
As the trail climbed higher up that mountain and we left the shaded forests below, I had hoped that the ice & snow would by now be melting.....
Unfortunately we had started too early in the day and the melting that one might expect with the rising sun had not yet begun.....
