Jan. 29, 2022 – Bonus Pictures, it’s a snow day!

Not a bad overnight total (for central North Carolina)

Kodak enjoyed it

Jan. 29, 2022

Overnight snow

and in morning light

Jan. 22, 2022

Pongo in her virgin state.

Then I got a call to go “snow wheeling” with Tony and Kat

Not as much snow as we hoped, but still fun to exercise the truck!

Jan. 21, 2022

Late night snow

Snow ice cream

Jan. 16, 2022

It starts. We avoided the freezing rain, only snow and then sleet.

Jan. 3, 2022

Yesterday it was nearly 70, I wore shorts, this morning…. snow

Always nice to have my three Toyota trucks home, and Sam too ; )

June 22, 2021

Drove Ophir Pass today

Two Tacos at the top

At the top of the pass, the map showed a lake up and over the mountain, so of course we had to hike it.

We headed over the top and down to Telluride for lunch.

June 19, 2021

Busy day. Started with a sunrise ride at RAT

Then off-roading Engineer Pass

Michael Breen Mine ruins

As we got above the tree line and onto the shelf road, a hail storm hit – Watch the video here

but it cleared up on top, notice the hail on the windshield. Lunch spot!

Since the pass isn’t the top of Engineer Mountain, we hiked last 1/4 mile up to the 13,218 foot summit.

The actual pass…

A waterfall

Ute Ulay ghost town

A big hole in the dam

We took the long way home, something like 12 hours over the mountain and through the woods.

Two majestic elk and one derpy elk

May 31, 2021

We started the day with a hike in the La Sal Mountains to Brumely Arch, it included a waterfall, ice at the base of the waterfall and a slot canyon at the top.

I love hiking in Aspens

The arch was pretty, just tough to photograph

Then we drove toward Geyser Pass, I am never tired of this view out my windshield

Pretty trees, light and still clean Pongo

I was goofing around in the snow and got stuck, a quick tug by James and I was free. As we continued up Geyser Pass, we found a Ford Raptor deep in snow, I was able to pull him out as Beth walked ahead to report the shelf road was covered in snow and off camber… with a huge drop, so time to turn around.

So we decided to move campsites to the other side of Moab to be closer to Arches NP and a planned sunrise hike. Pongo was no longer clean…

Feb. 2, 2021

What 18+ inches look like in the morning. I did sleep in the truck again (for the third night) but didn’t use the Flippac due to the weight on the tent. Click to watch a Short Time Lapse of clearing the driveway