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Colorado Leaf Peeping, 2021, Part 1

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2021-10-20
Post category:Colorado Exploring
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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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Diamond View

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2021-10-06
Post category:Hiking Truck Camping
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The weather looked like a classic fall weekend. I didn’t think we’d get another backpack trip in this year, but with the weather report the writing was on the wall. We’d head to the mountains for a hike. The video and story from the weekend follow. Give them a look, and we hope you enjoy following along!

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Rock Creek Weekend

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2021-09-22
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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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