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[RC] Southwest (Creede) Colorado - rides2farJust got back from a trip to Creede, Colorado (southwest corner) and loved it. Took about 10 minutes to get used to the idea of cool mornings and evenings and mid-days that were just sunny but no big deal as far as heat goes. Just curious as to whether there are any ridecampers down in that corner? Too late to ask for a ride, but still curious. My husband was ready to take early retirement and stay but I don't think he's quite got a visual of the winter conditions. >g< Since the area is surrounded by 4 National Forests (96% federal land in that county) and most of that was wilderness I'm guessing there's no races held near there. By the way, Jim Holland, I bought you and Jerry & Diane Fruth gifts while there. It's a decal for your truck that looks like the official US Forest Service Dept. of Agriculture sticker, but when you actually look closer it's "US Forest Circus Dept. of Aggravation" >g< I'm putting them in the mail Monday so watch your mailbox. :-) Tried to hike on the mountains and was amazed how loose the dirt & rocks are on the steep slopes. I now have a better visual of how those horses fall down the mountain at Tevis. :-P The amount of loose rock laying on top of *all* the ground was pretty daunting. Hard to picture taking out at a gallop across an open space, I could barely walk across it without turning an ankle. Amazing to see Elk poop in places where I was almost crawling to get up the mountain. It is pretty cool (literally*) to never have a sweaty shirt sticking to your back no matter how far you hike. By the way, the reason we ended up in Creede, which we never would have known existed was a ridecamp post. Someone asked someone else to recommend a Dude Ranch in Montana, I clicked on the link to the post someone else sent recommending one...there was a link to "employment opportunities" and the next thing I knew my 19 yr. old had a job at a ranch in Colorado. :-P Now I don't know if we're going to get her back...she's found out that the Western boys can *dance*! :-) Josie would have killed to get to gallop her horse across the landscape in New Mexico. I think we're going to have to try to get the horses out there in the next year or two. Seems pretty do-able when you see a Dairy Queen with a big sign that says "horse stalls" with an arrow to the back of their parking lot (they were nice pipe corrals privided by Dairy Queen), and rest areas along the freeway with corrals. Rode here this morning and our trails looked like a South American Rain Forest to me. Made me want to show some westerners around here. :-) Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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