Yesterday we went through Rocky Mountain National Park. It was a pretty long tour and we did some minor hiking to some amazing view points. The weather unfortunately was mostly overcast and it rained occasionally at the lower elevations and even snowed a good amount when we were above 11,000 feet. I took lots of pictures and can’t wait to get a chance to upload them. It could be awhile though. We plan on being in the middle of nowhere for awhile.
Rocky Mountain National Park is really amazing. The views are spectacular and we even saw some moose and elk! We did fine in the high altitude. There was one hike that you had to take a bunch of steps up to get to the summit of one of the peaks and a lot of people were not faring too well on that, but we kicked its butt and got some awesome pics.
We didn’t have a campbook for Colorado (either I left it at home, or it was always missing from the collection). We tried going to a AAA but it was closed due to the holiday. But since the weather was not cooperating we decided to hit up a hotel anyway. How expensive could it be out here? The place we stayed in Denver area was under $60 for a pretty decent place with free internet and breakfast. So we figured places out here in nowhere Colorado would be cheaper. Wrong! We passed through Steamboat Springs which actually had pretty nice places for not bad rates ($75-79 at most places) but we thought we could do better. So we kept heading west and most places were closed or non-existant. We finally arrived in Craig, CO and went to a Holiday Inn that the guy said was $120. What? He offered us the friends and family discount (him being the friend) which was $79, still we opted to cheap out and head to the Super 8 which was infact $69 but a far way from the quality of every single other place we looked at. No internet, no free breakfast, just a crappy run down hotel. Ah well. Adventures!
Today we’re going to hit up Dinosaur National Monument and possibly Salt Lake City, UT before turning north and going to the Jackson, Yellowstone, Grand Teton area of Wyoming. I expect not to have much cell service out there. We shall see though. I’ll try to update when I can but I definitely wont be uploading pics until I can get on a fast connect again.
Weather today isn’t looking so great. It’s raining again. We need some good weather!
Patty
Hey Jimmy,
I’m quite impressed by your road trip. The weather in Portland has been perfect with perfect weather forecasted for the next week. Hopefully that won’t change when you make it this way. When you get a better idea of when you think you’ll be here, I will try to make plans for Ryan and his family and Jennifer to join us.
Keep safe and enjoy this memorable adventure!!
Love,
Patty
James Crawford
Hi there! Thanks for reading! I think around June 5 and 6 I’ll be up there. Don’t worry I’ll spend a couple of nights in Portland at least. It will be great to see ya’ll! I’ll let you know more specifically when the day gets closer.
Dave
That’s a fair amount of snow at RMNP. Way more than I saw back in September of last year. Great pics.