Here is a short post that contains two more videos and additional miscellaneous photos from my recent trip to our lot in Colorado.
One evening bad weather rolled in and delivered a hail storm. Here is what it sounded like and the aftermath as seen the following morning. Run time: 1:58.
The ground was white with hail, but all melted off during the day adding moisture to the grass and trees. The date was August 6th, 2023.
Pam had asked me to do a “lot walk-around” video as she has not been to the lot in the last few years, and I had been clearing dead trees and brush in this interval. The video is fairly long at 18:58 but does cover quite a bit of ground. Shot over two days, there is some overlap and different lighting – some evening, some daylight. The clip is as much for historical purposes as anything so we can remember all the effort and time we have put into this parcel since we bought The Lot in September of 2012.
The following photos all fall into the “miscellaneous” category.
This first photo shows some damage to my equipment trailer due to a very rough road leading from The Lot. I strapped the fender to the tractor and continued home to Iowa. The local repair shop will re-weld the broken fender bracket and replacement tail lights are on order.
This photo shows the location of buildings at the top of Boreas Pass in its heyday. Find the Log Section House near the top of the map and note a small building just to the right. Around this cabin is were Mountain Lorrie (Pam’s mother, Lorraine) requested her ashes to be dispersed after a trip to the pass with us in the late ’70s.
One can sometimes see strange things along a trail, including this bus that was partially buried and converted into a hunting (?) camp.
Eastern Colorado appears to be expanding the variety of crops being grown. These sunflowers along I-76 added a golden cast to the landscape.
I am including a photo for Craig who asked about the ATV fitting in the truck.
And, to round out this post, a couple photos of me along the trails. All were on National Forest lands and were pretty well marked. I used my Avenza map application, on my phone, to track my location along the way.
That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!
One has to plan out carefully putting the ATV into the back of the truck every time I can imagine…One mistake and major disaster both the ATV and the person sitting in the seat… Looks kinda scary to me!!
See ya on Thursday!!!!!
Another question for you…
How is Hwy 9/169 for driving from Greene to Sioux Falls SD… Scenery and nice roads???
Or would you suggest something else… Koa Campground in Sioux Falls is our destination..
(Interstate kinda boring, but rotten roads are NO FUN with 10 ply tires and 75 lbs of pressure!!! 😉 )
Craig:
Yes, loading the ATV in the truck is always a trick. Several years ago I hit the back of the truck to hard and broke the rear window. Now I do the final approach with the ATV in Neutral and move it into place by hand.
If possible, I find a place where the truck is in a depression so the angle up the loading ramps is not so steep, but I have loaded the ATV with the truck on level ground. Low-range and 4-wheel drive are usually used in that situation.
I do not have a recommendation for the route between Greene and Sioux Falls. Our trips generally have not taken us into South Dakota. From Greene you can go west on County 13 (C 13) all the way to I-35 or go north on Hwy 13 / T 38 to Hwy 27, then west to I-35 past Mason City. Taking the interstate is pretty boring unless you like looking at a lot of cornfields.
Thanks for the note!