photos/25/0530-0601_GowdyVedauwoo/
By
Alan Silverstein,
ajs@frii.com
(page updated Mon Jun 23 13:58:05 MDT 2025)
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Eager to get out again in the van during warmer weather, and given
a three-day mostly decent forecast (between ~5-day bouts of rain), I
forced myself to load and go on Friday, May 30. I only had a limited
(and random) "agenda" involving Cheyenne, Curt Gowdy SP, and returning
to Vedauwoo the first night, with three hikes in mind -- that I completed
within a 24 hour period!
Then I was tired, but didn't head home, instead found random things to
do for two more nights out that didn't require a lot more driving, eg
I abandoned going all the way to Saratoga and back across the Snowy
Range. Instead I spent the second night at little Gelatt Lake west
of Laramie, the third night back at Vedauwoo, and drove a total of 53
sometimes rough unpaved miles on three routes!
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