Overland trip: COBDR trail - from San Antonito, CO to the CO/WY border. 9/21-9/24

[alia176]

My buddies Brian, Emory and I started the COBDR last Oct from CO/NM to Leadville before the weather turned us around. The plan is to finish up the trail then come home from WY. The northern half of this trail is much faster than the southern half from what Brian told me.

We'll be moving camp daily and will try to mix in some hiking and exploring. If this interests you, pipe up and be ready to meet us somewhere in San Antonito on Thurs, 9/20/18 in the eve sometime. We'll come up with GPS coord for the camp site that I can text out.

HAM radio will be our method of comm, as usual. The temps will be colder in the higher elev. Stock-rigs will do fine as this trail was setup by the pansy dual sport riders who have small bladders so fueling/food options are frequent. There'll be mud I'm sure and possibly snow, who knows. Probably a 5 gal jerry can of fuel can be a good idea but I don't think will be necessary. If we have spare fuel then we can just stay in the bush and not come out for re-fueling.

I'll have my senior citizen Border Collie with me as usual but his days of doing this are numbered

Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route
Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route (COBDR)

We can discuss it at the breakfast mtg this sat.

 

[pappy]

Gosh, in light of recent events I just might want to do this.

 

[pappy]

Where are you going to pick up the trail?

 

[lurch]

Should be perfect for colors...

 

[alia176]

Where are you going to pick up the trail?

The plan is to head to Leadville, CO on Fri morning and pickup where we left off last year.

 

[sl33p3]

oh man, sounds great, hope you have a great time! I already shot my BDR vacation wad in Idaho...

 

[alia176]

oh man, sounds great, hope you have a great time! I already shot my BDR vacation wad in Idaho...

Dude, post up details and pics from that trip in a new thread. Those pics are off the hook.

 

[Poupon]

Ash,

Did you end up finishing this? Post up some pix/stories!

 

[pappy]

Trying to figure out which pics are worthwhile.

Camp first night along the Rio Grande near Antonito.

At Hagerman Pass.

Rock Creek Stage Station.

Beaver ponds.

Fall color.

 

[pappy]

Fall color.

Camp last night.

Traffic jam this morning.

Riley and Glee approve of Wyoming.

 

[Poupon]

very nice guys! Thanks for sharing!

 

[evanz80]

Pappy - how's the new RTT working out? It looks great on the 4Runner!

Thanks for the pics!

 

[pappy]

Pappy - how's the new RTT working out? It looks great on the 4Runner!

Thanks for the pics!

So far so good. It's easy to set up and rather comfortable. For me, it's a great size. Not too wide on the truck, and just long enough. It's also very tall. I have enough room to "stand" on my knees and not hit the roof. In fact, I need to get on my knees to turn on the light.

After consultation with the camp engineer I'm going to make some changes to the mounting. Minor stuff. I also need to get a sway bar on the 4R. This thing is tippy around corners.

 

[sl33p3]

right on guys!

 

[alia176]

This was a fun trip and the weather was perfect. Fall colors were in full swing and the nights were chilly, got down to 29º one night. The last night we camped in the middle of fire wood EVERYWHERE but no camp fires were allowed in CO due to their drought. All in all, a great time was had and beautiful country was seen.

Here's Pappy at the end going "whoa, THAT'S IT? I'm just getting warmed up"!!!

 

[alia176]

Some pics

 

[alia176]

Drove by a large firefighter camp for fighting the Steamboat Springs area fire.

 

[alia176]

Short video of bear running and a pic.

 

[alia176]

Brian made a video of our trip

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=oZq-rILhIAE

 

[William839]

This looked like an awesome trip ! Are all you guys from NM?