Not much to update. Got the rear storage almost 100%. I'll get pictures of that after I figure out where I'm going to put my sub.
Did some camping and wheeling with my family over the 4th. We were planning on running my dads favorite trail since it's been 4 years since he passed away. My mom works for the Forest Service and had gotten reports that the first main creek crossing was too deep to cross. I figured that I would take my wife and daughter up that far and show them a bit of the trail since they wouldn't be joining us on the day of the full trail. Here's a few pics from that day.
Sack of tent worms that are wreaking havoc on the aspen trees and eating all of the leaves off of them.
My daughter being a ham:
On the 4th we went into Creede and watched the parade, ate lunch and checked out some of the shops. After meeting my mother-in-law to send my wife and daughter home with her I took my mom on a trail she wanted to check out. She wanted to check out Bristol Head trail. They say on a clear day you can see the Sangre De Cristo mountain range over 150 miles away. Well, it wasn't a clear day and this was one of the best pics I got of the views.
It's hard to see, but that's the Rio Grande Pyramid and the Window. This is one of the best angles that I've seen then from before. We decided that we were going to do this full trail next year as we had to stop about half way in order to get back to camp for dinner.
On the 5th we started to go up Stoney Pass. As I said, this was always my dads favorite trail and we try to do a run up it once a year as a memorial type of trip. We hadn't gotten far when my brother was trying to get passed some ATVs in my moms 08 Sequoia. He came off a little rock wrong and pinched the sidewall and blew the passenger front tire. Once we changed it we decided that we would turn the Sequoia around and just head up with a few of us in the 4Runner. This was a great decision as the trail has gotten a lot worse since last year. The Sequoia would have gotten turned around not even halfway up as there was a large eroded ravine of sorts. The 4Runner didn't have a problem, but it would have stopped the Sequoia dead in its tracks.
Once at the top we surprised my mom with a gift. This year would have been their 50th anniversary. We got her a necklace that had all of the kids birth stones, along with hers and dads. Each piece had our name and birthdate. It was a great time and an overall good trip. Here's a few pics from that day.
View from the top:
Little guy on the way down:
