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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 2596689" data-attributes="member: 7900"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We just got back from our first excursion since arriving in Colorado. We left the great comforts of our luxury fifth wheel and went camping. Yeppers...tents and sleeping in sleeping bags. (Well, it wasn't really that rough. We had cots and air mattresses....sort of a poor man's Select Comfort bed.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The wife's sister has a son that is a contract worker for the Air Force overseas. Normally, when he comes home on his 1 month vacations, he only has time for a few days of camping because no one wants to spend more than that roughing it. So, he was delighted that we said we would go camping with him for the better part of a week...five days to be exact. The five of us included our nephew and our youngest son, both in their 40's and the wife's sister and the two of us (all of the latter in their '60's.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We went to a campground called Camp Dick that is located northwest of Boulder and southwest of Estes Park. <a href="http://www.reserveamerica.com/camping/camp-dick/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70760" target="_blank">Reserve America Information on Camp Dick in Colorado</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So, in light of sharing photos as well as experiences, here are a few photos of our camping trip.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The first image shows (L to R) our youngest son, the wife, the nephew, and the nephew's mother. I'm not in the image because I took the picture and I can't cook, so no help or comments were needed from me.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_0792_zps6bd70488.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beautye3b4b9ff73789206a6428aaf72ab8583.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Our campsite, on which we had two large tents set up, one of which is barely visible behind our pickup. Oh, and the pickup is a full sized, four-door Ford F150 that appears to be dwarfed by our nephew's Jeep Rubicon. (More on the Jeep later.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_6831_zpsd5cdb762.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty0f48468e407b89f8ddaa6f002b849d67.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Camp Dick campground is located on the Middle Saint Vrain Creek, and this picture is just one that I took of the creek. "Normal" Colorado creek that is clear and cold.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_6991_zpsac46f017.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty8bbf7b7f08782bfea083cb6804a881f0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">While the wife's sister has had a hip replaced, she still likes to get out and hike around, although we limit our hiking to her pace and generally don't make them long. This hike was approximately 2 miles round trip, with a lot of it through the forest and the return back on the paved road going back to Camp Dick campground from Peaceful Valley campground. The sister-in-law thought afterwards that she might have found it more pleasurable to have returned on the forest trail instead of walking back on the paved road. Oh, and as a side note, this is the first time I've ever been on a road to a "primitive" campground where the access road is paved and also has speed bumps.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_6968_zpsd6048b94.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beautyc75a1c455cf224f1cd1c896bc69aab74.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Now, as to the Jeep Rubicon, our nephew likes to do off road travel in the mountains. So, he has "lifted" his Jeep by 4 1/2 inches and put on what I think are 36-inch tires, thus making his vehicle of choice capable of places like the following:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_4908_zps19801edb.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty6dce88658ce3f3f67684ad93024e346f.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_7082_zps7fd52110.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty770510de8aff9c70e9573adb7c19d4c6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The road and the water crossing are part of the way that we went where we traveled from Camp Dick to Beaver Reservoir where he let air out of the tires for the rocky road to Coney Flats. The water crossing is at Coney Flats. Our return trip to Camp Dick was via another four-wheel road (more challenging, so he wanted to take it on the downhill side instead of climbing), and that road would want to be taken when the weather is dry. Rain on those rocks makes them very slick, leading to possible "bumps with nature."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The last scenic picture was taken as we walked from the parking area at Coney Flats out to a small meadow. The mountains in the background are (L to R) Coney Island, Sawtooth, and Red Deer.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_7100_zpsf0e41121.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty620259c564d6aed9929036004a132206.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The last little tidbit of information regards the Jeep Rubicon. Since our nephew has about another year and a half on his employment for the Air Force overseas, he wants me to have his Jeep to use, sort of like keeping it to "exercise" it on occasion and maintain it for him. Believe me, I don't think there is any way I am going to take roads like we took on this trip.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_7070_zpsbdd6a0c5.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beautyd4db70d7da82449d1e2a1749635f4135.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">(I'll also post this last photo and a couple more over on the "Jeeps" thread.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">All in all, it was a great camping trip, although I wish it could have been a bit longer. However, if it had been a bit longer, I'd have had to done some "bathing" in that clear and cold stream.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 2596689, member: 7900"] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]We just got back from our first excursion since arriving in Colorado. We left the great comforts of our luxury fifth wheel and went camping. Yeppers...tents and sleeping in sleeping bags. (Well, it wasn't really that rough. We had cots and air mattresses....sort of a poor man's Select Comfort bed.) The wife's sister has a son that is a contract worker for the Air Force overseas. Normally, when he comes home on his 1 month vacations, he only has time for a few days of camping because no one wants to spend more than that roughing it. So, he was delighted that we said we would go camping with him for the better part of a week...five days to be exact. The five of us included our nephew and our youngest son, both in their 40's and the wife's sister and the two of us (all of the latter in their '60's.) We went to a campground called Camp Dick that is located northwest of Boulder and southwest of Estes Park. [URL="http://www.reserveamerica.com/camping/camp-dick/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70760"]Reserve America Information on Camp Dick in Colorado[/URL] So, in light of sharing photos as well as experiences, here are a few photos of our camping trip. The first image shows (L to R) our youngest son, the wife, the nephew, and the nephew's mother. I'm not in the image because I took the picture and I can't cook, so no help or comments were needed from me. [URL=http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_0792_zps6bd70488.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beautye3b4b9ff73789206a6428aaf72ab8583.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Our campsite, on which we had two large tents set up, one of which is barely visible behind our pickup. Oh, and the pickup is a full sized, four-door Ford F150 that appears to be dwarfed by our nephew's Jeep Rubicon. (More on the Jeep later.) [URL=http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_6831_zpsd5cdb762.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty0f48468e407b89f8ddaa6f002b849d67.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Camp Dick campground is located on the Middle Saint Vrain Creek, and this picture is just one that I took of the creek. "Normal" Colorado creek that is clear and cold. [URL=http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_6991_zpsac46f017.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty8bbf7b7f08782bfea083cb6804a881f0.jpg[/IMG][/URL] While the wife's sister has had a hip replaced, she still likes to get out and hike around, although we limit our hiking to her pace and generally don't make them long. This hike was approximately 2 miles round trip, with a lot of it through the forest and the return back on the paved road going back to Camp Dick campground from Peaceful Valley campground. The sister-in-law thought afterwards that she might have found it more pleasurable to have returned on the forest trail instead of walking back on the paved road. Oh, and as a side note, this is the first time I've ever been on a road to a "primitive" campground where the access road is paved and also has speed bumps. [URL=http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_6968_zpsd6048b94.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beautyc75a1c455cf224f1cd1c896bc69aab74.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Now, as to the Jeep Rubicon, our nephew likes to do off road travel in the mountains. So, he has "lifted" his Jeep by 4 1/2 inches and put on what I think are 36-inch tires, thus making his vehicle of choice capable of places like the following: [URL=http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_4908_zps19801edb.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty6dce88658ce3f3f67684ad93024e346f.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_7082_zps7fd52110.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty770510de8aff9c70e9573adb7c19d4c6.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The road and the water crossing are part of the way that we went where we traveled from Camp Dick to Beaver Reservoir where he let air out of the tires for the rocky road to Coney Flats. The water crossing is at Coney Flats. Our return trip to Camp Dick was via another four-wheel road (more challenging, so he wanted to take it on the downhill side instead of climbing), and that road would want to be taken when the weather is dry. Rain on those rocks makes them very slick, leading to possible "bumps with nature." The last scenic picture was taken as we walked from the parking area at Coney Flats out to a small meadow. The mountains in the background are (L to R) Coney Island, Sawtooth, and Red Deer. [URL=http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_7100_zpsf0e41121.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beauty620259c564d6aed9929036004a132206.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The last little tidbit of information regards the Jeep Rubicon. Since our nephew has about another year and a half on his employment for the Air Force overseas, he wants me to have his Jeep to use, sort of like keeping it to "exercise" it on occasion and maintain it for him. Believe me, I don't think there is any way I am going to take roads like we took on this trip. [URL=http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/TerryandJo/media/Colorado%20Beauty%20and%20Such/Camping%20Trip%20-%20August%202014/DSC_7070_zpsbdd6a0c5.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Colorado_20Beautyd4db70d7da82449d1e2a1749635f4135.jpg[/IMG][/URL] (I'll also post this last photo and a couple more over on the "Jeeps" thread.) All in all, it was a great camping trip, although I wish it could have been a bit longer. However, if it had been a bit longer, I'd have had to done some "bathing" in that clear and cold stream. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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