Colorado 1

 Ahhh.. sleeping with the windows open covered in a feather blanket waking up to 45 to 50 degree heaven. I love Texas nights but sometimes I miss these cool morning. Time for breakfast. Steve cooked out a couple times at camp and there is nothing like cooking in the fresh air and smelling bacon.  Another  thing I like at Fun Valley is if you don't want to cook, they serve breakfast lunch and dinner. Great food and you meet a lot of people from all over. Lot of things to do for kids. Over all I really liked the Camp ground.  I wish we could have had our grand kids with us here.

Time to check out the area here. We went to look for Bears, Moose and Elks. Just another 3000ft up the hill and this time in the Jeep. Back windows off so the back seat passengers could see and take pictures while driving. Of course we have to look for the Bear and Moose first since none of us has ever seen one in the wild. Up to Summit Hill 18 miles high.  No Bear, no Moose or Elk. Scenery was just amazing! Every turn we took was just a view that took you breath away. The higher we went the lower the temperature. I had on shorts but was smart enough to bring a jacket. Grandma sitting in the front with windows up and heater  and jacket on was freezing. A true Texan; anything below 70 degrees is to cold for a Texan.
That was our first trip up. We went back to camp to find out when and where to go to see Bears and Moose. We were told to go up to Hunter Lake in the evening. Next evening we went to the highest point on the trip. 11700 ft. Wow, just beautiful  to over look valleys, lakes or reservoir's.  On the way up we saw a few rabbits and we think Bear poop (Ha ,after we saw the poop I had to buy a wild animal book to see if it was bear skat). We finally made it to the top and waited and waited nothing. After we waited a while, another car pulled up and two couples came out with cameras talking loud and making noises. We thought no wild animals going to show up with all that noise. After a while they left. They had no patience's which was good for us. So we are still waiting as the sun sets just right in time for a Moose to come down and graze in the Valley in front of us.  Then we hear something in the distance. We are straining to listen or see something.  We finally hear someone talking in front of us and sure enough, two guys came out of the woods in front of us in the valley with fishing polls in there hand. Oh well, no Moose today. Those two men were wood cutters and took a break to go fishing and then back to cutting  dead trees down with loud  chain saws. There was no way a Moose would come now. Another day tomorrow.
As beautiful as everything is in this area it was so very sad to see so many dead trees. We were told that it is pine beetle and it kills the pine trees. There is a spray that would kill the beetles but EPA will not allow the forest service to spray. Sad to see a big forest like this dying off.






Picnic just before the sleet came down