Day Twenty: Goodbye Durango

Today we had the house to ourselves since the employed people had to go to work. We meandered our way through packing up and preparing for another stint of camping. We are heading to Alta Lakes or Gold Kings Basin (a game time decision since they are close, both near Telluride, CO). We plan to spend the week camping there for free on National Forest Land, acclimating to the altitude, fishing and chillaxing. At the end of the week we will meet David and friends in Silverton, CO for July 4th camping.

Later...

We decided to camp at Alta Lakes because we couldn't find a good place to set up camp at Gold Kings Basin, despite it being more spectacular and more private. We got camp set up on less than level ground, the sun shelter a good piece away from our tent so as not to attract bears. I was struggling with the fire and fairly willing to give up and go to sleep, but Robert (being the Eagle Scout that he is) prevailed and gave us heat. We got our new Coleman stove up and working, but opted only to reheat tikka masala to make it quick (it was dark and cold even with the fire). The cold raspberry wheat ale from the growler didn't help the cold, but it was tasty.

This is going in my blog moment: Robert found the second lost lens cap, you know the one I felt terrible for losing, in his pocket!

Going to try out our patch job on the air mattress, think good thoughts for us.