West Coast Camp Commander 2011 / July 24 - 29 / Buena Vista Colorado (Pre-Event)

[ped4599]

My buddie dropped off the tent trailer last night so now all I need is a Jeep Commander and I am ready to go!

Justin, would you mind being Wagonmaster on Wednesday and running one of the trails you have highlighted? Chinaman Gulch and Grizley both looked like fun runs. You can Wagonmaster any trail you want on any other day too as my list was just a suggestion and I have not run any of them before and certainly do not want to lead every trail ride either.

I received 3 boxes of goodies from Discount Tire so I will strat putting the goodie bags together as well.

Jon, Yes, I would be ok with that.
I would say for anyone wanting to do chinaman gulch, we try that Monday afternoon, hoping that the FOURMILE AREA morning run wont spill over into the afternoon.
Jon, you can start it all off with the the FOURMILE AREA run in the morning, then after that I will head to Chinaman Gulch, if any one wants to follow.

And then it would make sense to do Grizzly Lake on that Wednesday on the way back from the Alpine station....assuming that the Hancock pass is open by then........ Basically I think we would have the whole group run Hancock PASS to the Alpine station/tunnel, then on the way back people who want to try Grizzly can go up it, since its on the way back out....and others who want to skip Grizzly can head back to camp...or do a run up hancock lake or any of the other lakes, or what ever they choose.

[ped4599]

The bushducks site show Hancock pass is OPEN!!

[strokeZ]

Weather dot com site showing good chance of rain Tues & Wed of next week. Bring your mud gear!

[ped4599]

Weather dot com site showing good chance of rain Tues & Wed of next week. Bring your mud gear!

I have never been to this area so i dont know if rain actualy equals mud since it could be pretty rocky, but I down that rain will make it any more wet than the tons and tons of melting snow there right now! hehe!

[strokeZ]

I have never been either - but I am sure either the camp site or trails or somewhere there will be mud - still that is an extended forecast so it will prolly change - but you are dead on right about the snow (I often forget that living at sea level!).

[LWM]

Weather dot com site showing good chance of rain Tues & Wed of next week. Bring your mud gear!

Thanks for the heads up, I will bring additional wet weather gear too.

[TrialByFire]

Local venue would work best for me.

x3

[LWM]

Roxanne an I will be leaving Albuquerque Sunday morning if you want to caravan.

Here is where I will be staying on Saturday Night, let me know where you want to meet up at:

http://koa.com/campgrounds/albuquerque-north/

Albuquerque North / Bernalillo KOA
555 South Hill Road
Bernalillo, NM 87004

[HueyPilotVN]

I have a couple of updates. Lee. I and our two grandkids will be following Jon up from Phoenix Saturday, Staying at the Albuquerque KOA that night. I guess we might have a convoy up to Buena Vista. I have decided thaat since I have a new air station, I will donate my old, hardly used, but complete with a snazzy aluminum case as a drawing prize. I also have some Amsoil products that we can divide up, filters, gear lube, syn trans lube. I will look thru the workshop for any other Jeep goodies. I tried to get a deal on Fumoto valves but they did not even email me back. I guess that they did not know that I was a big Fumoto promoter.....

[TrialByFire]

Here is where I will be staying on Saturday Night, let me know where you want to meet up at:

There is a RailRunner train station parking lot just north of the KOA at Hwy 550 and I-25. It would be a good place to meet.

It's about a 4-1/2 hour drive to Buena Vista so I was thinking of leaving about 9:00 but am flexible.