Hit the road right at daybreak and busted right thru the heart of Denver. Roads clear ... traffic weren't. 'Bout the time I got up towards Ft. Collins, the overhead highway info signs all started sayin' I-25 was closed up to the Wyomin' border. Beautiful, sunny day so I figured they gotta open up the damned thang soon and mize well just go right up the gates and wait it out.
The 18-wheelers were lined up on the shoulder as always as I went by 'em to the gate. And it was open. Highway patrolman waved me right thru. They literally just opened it up. That's good livin' right there.
Interstate was clear and dry right up to Cheyenne. The city streets were bad tho. Turned in the rental car and went to see how ****ed the jeep was. The trailer was actu'ly more snowed in than the jeep.
So fired up the jeep to let 'er warm up and then dug out some in front of the trailer tires to make a path. Locked 'er up in 4wd and popped 'er right out. Good to go.
Then I found where the 5' drifts really were ... at my storage unit.
Gate wouldn't open. Nobody in the office. Nobody answerin' any of the emergency phone numbers listed on the door. ****. Can't leave without all my s***.
So threw the snow shovel over the fence that I had borrowed from TNT. Then found the tallest drift against the fence and climbed over. Commenced to makin' me a tunnel to my door.
Made 'bout twenty trips and toted ev'rythang to the fence and threw it over into a pile.
Then climbed back over the fence and made 'bout twenty more trips over to the street and just chunked it all into the trailer. Gotta get the **** outta town. Here's drivin' to the on ramp for I-25 ...
Gotta leave 'cuzz they was callin' for another blizzard. Back to the South of me over Raton Pass. Wasn't countin' on that one.
So back thru the Denver traffic again and down to Pueblo. This morning, goin' north, the countryside was clear all the way to Pueblo. Not no more. Callin' for 2 - 4' on the pass so gotta go. Got damned nasty by the time I got to Trinidad. White-out and hard to see where the road was. Backside of the pass was clear though. Woulda been a bad deal a few hours later. Still blowin' snow with huge north winds so kept drivin' all the way to Clayton, NM.
3 hun'erd miles in the rental car. 4 hun'erd miles in the jeep. And I'm sore as **** from shovelin' snow.