Saturday, October 16, 2010

Campers, Cousins, Kids, Critters, & Colorado Camping


With a little "Chaos" thrown in just for fun.


This post contains various pictures of our many trips camping close to home,
I will add to them from time to time
Please click on any of the picutes to enlarge

We've had some wonderful family reunions, plus simple, relaxing times in our camper close to home in our fantastic Colorado Rockies.  Homebodies and fishermen by heart we love nothing more than a get together with friends and relatives, wetting a hook in a stream, and filling our tummies with great home cooked food.  It always tastes better when it's cooked outdoors!   Following are just random shots from a few different years of some of our best times while Camping in Colorado.

A Hodgepoge of Crazy Campers 2008


Setting up for these big gatherings is never easy but everyone pitches in to help.
After having a rain hit about the time we're ready to eat several time, we decided a food tent
was the only way to go.









Food is always plentiful

Help Yerself!

How bout some fried chicken, potato salad, fruit, baked beans, mac salad, or bread?






Bountiful Breakfasts (eggs in a bag with all the toppings)

Hamburgers Helper

Sizzlin Steaks 

Fish Fry's

Marvelous  Melted Marshmallows over a bon fire

Come and Get it!



Plenty of time for "catching up" 2009




A scary road but sights that were too beautiful for words

daughter fixing breakfast for us inside her camper!

Granny & the Girls



Fishing in the Rio Grand River 2010


we start them early

and it continues



Our last "grandkid trip"

great days in special places like "Pearl"

and with special people



Range of the Rockies

Always another trail to follow

home sweet home 2008

Hiking

Trout
Cleaning Fish in the camper

Clear Creek Falls 2009






Quiet Area







Hiking with the Llamas 2007

Sunset in the Rockies



Doe and Fawn

Moose across the pond

The Day's Catch

Relaxing on a colorado lake with son and family 2008


Supper's Cookin

Attending the "rio grand" music festival


On the tram to Telluride 


To the "Nothing Festival"



Chow Time



A special evening out at "the Antlers" near Creede Colorado 2010


Herd of Rocky Mt. Sheep







Appetizers on the patio







Dinner in the food tent


karaokee in costume for the talent show 2010

Picnicin' by the boat dock with daughter & son in law 2010

humming bird feeder outside the camper

Box canyon 2007

parked at a ranch

Fun with the go cart & grandkids 2008



Breakfast for 20 - 2009

Wild flowers by the pond
2008

Not all "camping trips" are fun and perfect, we took the camper to use as our base when
we had to travel a distance to a hospital for my back surgery in Feburary 2010


On a friend's sail boat - camping trip on Carter lake in 2007


Breakfast out doors to celebrate "August"....of fruit, baked english omelet, home made hash browns
and mimosa's of course!  we carried the camper chairs outside to set at the old
"well head" when we camped at the ranch the summer of 2010.  The crowd we run with
doesn't require much to celebrate..... :)



Watching a deer cool off in the river behind the camper 2007


A nice "brown" taken on Jim's fly rod 2008

daughter on a trip with us


Colorado Columbine

2 comments:

el poquito said...

Beautiful --- thanks for the Rockies tour. ; )

Mary said...

Glad you could join us ep..... we're looking forward to the day you can follow along for real......next summer maybe?