Yay! Camping, camping! Off to BV we go! (BV= Buena Vista but isn't it funny how it could also be Bitterroot Valley?!) We were able to sneak away a day early and make it another long weekend in the Arkansas River Valley. I'm always the crazy person in the passenger seat taking a million 'road pics' along the way. This first series takes you along for the ride:
We love to dry camp in the open areas of the National Forest. Sven found a real gem this time. A creek was footsteps away, a reservoir within 1/2 a mile and the Arkansas River just beyond that. As if that weren't fishing heaven for Nik alone, we discovered a 'ghost town' only 8 miles up the road from our campsite. Woohoo! Emalie got to ride her bike all around the campground (why don't I have a picture of that? Especially cute when she was donning her baseball pj's "because I love baseball!"), and Sven got to relax in his lawn chair (whoops that it caught on fire, lol.....) and take it all in. This location really did have something for all of us. It's a new Krauss favorite despite the massive amounts of people also trying to 'get away'.
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| Nik fishing in the creek at our campsite. |
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| The reservoir just beyond the campground. |
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Along the drive up the road, we came across the remnants of an avalanche.
This is the view up the hill. |
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This is the view looking towards the creek.
I bet that would have been scary to witness. |
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| Nik even got to skip out on touring the ghost town as the creek ran right through it! |
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| Like father, like daughter. |
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| Winfield, CO. |
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| How neat is that natural spring?! |
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The intensity of the Colorado colors never ceases to amaze me.
This photo is virtually unedited yet the vibrance of the blues and greens is amazing. |
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| A rare scene-- two stationery children just enjoying the view. |
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| Em showing Sven some Father's Day love. |
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| The terrain of this area is so beautiful. |
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| And this marks the end of a great weekend-- home again, but poor Em succumb to a cold and crawled into her play tent where we found her fast asleep. That's my little girl-- all curled up in her Spiderman blanket surrounded by a million stuffed animals! |
Hope all of you fathers out there had a wonderful Father's Day. I always appreciate being able to spend it with my husband after all the ones he missed during deployments. I wish I could have spent Father's Day with my own dad as well, but I did the next best thing spending it doing something for which he taught me an appreciation. Thanks, Dad, for all those quite moments in the mountains; the value of the beauty of nature has had such a tremendous impact on my life. Love you, Dad!
