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Colorado Leaf Peeping, 2021, Part 1

A while back we started a retirement truck camper list. Campers to consider if we wanted to move past the Four Wheel Camper Eagle, if we were living more full time on the road. Well, one of the campers on the list is actually available to rent from a place in Colorado (https://goexploreit.com/). A few months back we set aside a few days, hoping for fall colors and reserved the 2021 Tiger Bengal TX for four days of testing and exploring Colorado.

The folks at goexploreit were great to work with and provided everything we needed for the trip. They set us up for off road adventure and even provided maps and books with a suggested itinerary for the days we had available and what we were interested in. Tables, camp chairs, and ax and saw, winch, air down/up kit, tools, cooking utensils, everything. We’ll cover the truck in more detail in a future post. For now, we’ll get into the trip report. And of course if you want the video summary here it is:

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Rock Creek Weekend

Ever been to Rock Creek? I think it’s right next to Deer Creek, right? We originally planned to be up in the high Cascades, but as the weekend approached and inches of rain or snow with wind looked likely we shifted plans to the east and headed to the Ochocos and found a quiet spot to spend the weekend next to Rock Creek. By the time we arrived on Friday night it was getting dark, the moon, Jupiter and Saturn were all scrolling across the sky.

The next morning it started raining just about breakfast time. It’s hard to complain, as we’re in severe drought so we sat back and enjoyed our coffee and listened to the rain on the roof. It quit about noon which gave us plenty of time to venture out on a hike.

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Escape to Goat Rocks

As mentioned in the last post, it’s been a pretty smoky summer. Oregon and California have been on fire since June. Labor Day weekend took the smoke to a whole new level. Hazardous air quality with smoke so thick there were times we couldn’t see the shore while out fishing Odell.

Fishing anyone? Odell Lake, Memorial Day weekend.
Sunrise, with a bit of smoke, Odell Lake
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