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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Wed Mar 16 18:14:40 MDT 2022)

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We finally took the camper van out for a (short) trip this summer, 4 nights, with the middle 2 indoors at the cabin! We drove up to Estes Park, where I finally kayaked on Lake Estes; had a nice early dinner at Burgers and Gyros; I paddled around Lily Lake on the margin of RMNP also for the first time; and we camped at Olive Ridge (USFS) near Allenspark south of Estes, where we'd stayed once before -- in 2013! Our first year of camping in the van.

The next day we spent 9.5 hours and at least 14 stops, which was tiring, driving the Peak to Peak Highway, with an unplanned side trip up to see the Moffat Tunnel for the first time, then south down to Idaho Springs for BBQ lunch, and up and over Guanella Pass -- by which time we were more than ready to just head for the cabin instead of camping again, for instance, up PCR 60 for the first time (maybe later).

This worked out great because the county texted a fire ban the next evening just as I was finishing feeding another all-day slash disposal campfire!

Finally, oddly, we spent the last night out camped just 6.8 miles up the Georgia Pass road, only about 8 miles from the cabin, which set me up for a very nice evening hike I'd long wanted to do.

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