airmenair
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All I have to say is you are awesome. And, that rust sucks, but if it makes you feel any better my rust is way worse. I'm going to need a full new floor pan.
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The trip started with an 8 hour, 360 mile drive from where I live in Spanish Fork, to the mountains north of Steamboat Springs, CO.
The Drive Out: (somewhere between Vernal, UT, and Craig, CO)
Our only destination was "the mountains north of Steamboat Springs," we didn't really know where we were going to park, but we ultimately settled on this spot, at just over 9,000 ft elevation. (~2,750 m)
Some pictures of Camp, and Hahns Peak: (these pics are not necessarily taken on the same day)
And the morning fog in the valley:
We had arrived on the 27th, on the 28th we went down to the town of Steamboat (no pics that I took on the phone), and then on the 29th, My dad, my sister, and I took a drive around Hahns Peak. We were still figuring out the GoPro, so I only have images from the last third of the trip, after I got stuck in a 4-5 ft deep snow drift on the top of the returning pass back into Steamboat. I cant recall the name of the pass, or the dirt road we were on at the time, but I know that the snow was completely covering the road, was about 4 or 5 foot deep (1.2-1.5 m), and was at over 10,400 ft elevation (3170 m). I would not have gotten stuck if I was going a little faster, but oh well.
Turns out it was a good thing we got stuck. only one vehicle had made it through the snowdrift, and my dad and I estimated that they had gone through less than 2 hours before. While we were getting un-stuck, they came back (it was a newer Jeep JK), and reported that about 2 miles up the road was a 20 foot deep drift (6 m), about 40 yards long (37 m).
I was eventually pulled out by a Jeep Gran Cherokee that came up behind us, and then I had to pull out the Jeep JK that managed to get stuck trying to come back through (they made the same mistake I did, and went too slow)
This is where we sort of figured out the GoPro, and we have images from about this point on. I still need to process them though, so later.
heres the only two shots I took that day with the phone, that turned out:
On the first, we packed up camp, and moved to a new spot, closer to Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park.
Mostly packed up:
On the road, this is the first view of the Front Range. Most of those peaks are over 12,000 ft (3650 m):
less then 5 minutes after we had arrived at our new spot It started to rain:
Unfortunately, I do not have any good pics of the second camp, the situation was just too closed in by small trees and bushes to get a good wide shot of the whole camp.
We made a short exploratory run to the park entrance on the second (no pics), and on the third, we woke up super early, and went to Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park.
Near the park entrance:
Lake Irene:
At or near the top (the road reaches 12,183 ft, (3713 m) the highest continuously paved road in the continental US:
We made a loop that day, heading out through Rocky, going out to the front range, and back on CO 14, the Poudre Canyon Highway.
these last two were taken along that road, and the last is actually Poudre Falls
Note that every single picture was taken with my phone, the ones taken with the GoPro and the actual camera still need to be transferred onto my PC, and processed.