By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Fri Jun 19 14:37:01 MDT 2009)
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I went to Glendo Reservoir, Wyoming (111 miles north of Colorado on I25) with kayaks, for the fifth time in four years, to rockhound with permission from the park superintendent. I asked, and this time he said it was OK for me to bring a small group. My friend Jenny brought her kayak up from New Mexico, plus local rockhounds Major and Logan King got in on the action, and are no longer "kayak virgins" (grin).
I brought both of my kayaks, and Major borrowed one more from a friend. We left Fort Collins about noon Saturday, drove through one thunderstorm after a lunch stop in Cheyenne, arrived at Glendo about 3 pm, and found a place to camp at the busy Elk Horn area on the south shore of the north bay. No picnic table or running water, but enough space, and not too far from the lake.
By the time we were ready to get on the water, a thunderstorm was nearing from the west. We played around a little, then sat out rain and lightning in the cars while having dinner. We got onto the lake, in fact, all the way across it and back, 6:20 - 8:30 pm (22 minutes across with a tailwind, about 30 returning). Logan started a campfire, but then we sat out another storm with big hail and lots of lightning.
Finally the stars emerged, I set up my tent, and tried to go to bed about 10:30 pm. An hellacious monster storm ripped through the area. Lightning flashed several times a second and the thunder was continuous, like being in a bowling alley! It didn't settle down until around midnight.
And that was just the first day of the two-day weekend. Let's get into photos and I'll tell the rest of the story!
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