On Friday we awoke up to a beautiful day. We stayed in our sleeping bags waiting for it to warm up from a cold night. We had an easy breakfast and go started on breaking camp. Once packed and loaded we drove south to a place called red pocket. I saw this landmark on the map…
Colorado offers many remote areas with scenery that rivals the best of the best. The Colorado Flat Tops are one of these area. In the summer of 2008 we had a chance to traverse part of the flat tops via county and 4 wheel drive roads. We took fours days with 2 camps to complete…
On Thursday we finally made the trip to see the fall colors. Even though we missed the peak by a week or so there were still pockets of the glorious gold of the changing aspens. To find the fall colors we took the Toyota FJ Cruiser and headed west from Colorado Springs on Old Stage…
After switching, this fall, from a small private school to a larger public school for 9th grade my daughter stated that she needed some time in Utah to commune with nature. To fill this need we planned a short trip over Thanksgiving break to the San Rafael Swell. The plan was to drive to the…
For day 5 it was time to head to the city. Our plan was to finish Taylor pass, hit Aspen and then take Pearl to Crested Butte, however with snow still at the summit of Pearl I change the day to take us through aspen then down valley to Carbondale and camping next to the…
Thanks to mother nature we had a snowy trip to get our Christmas tree this year. We have made cutting our Christmas tree in Pike National Forest an annual event. Our Toyota FJ Cruiser has just made this more fun. With the FJ chained up with Rud Grip 4×4 chains we were able to head…
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Wow! Watching the video brought back wonderful memories of the climb out of the creek! The M416 trailers followed without a bobble!
I’ll always remember the many groups of 4-wheeler riders that would stop at our camp and always ask us how we got up to Taylor Lake. When we’d tell them up the creek they would not believe us… Most said they had a very hard time climbing out of the creek themselves.
Wow! Watching the video brought back wonderful memories of the climb out of the creek! The M416 trailers followed without a bobble!
I’ll always remember the many groups of 4-wheeler riders that would stop at our camp and always ask us how we got up to Taylor Lake. When we’d tell them up the creek they would not believe us… Most said they had a very hard time climbing out of the creek themselves.
Viva FJ!!!