Jeeping Up Medano Creek

We woke up to heavy overcast, temp in the 40s and intermittent rain. Not a good day to climb the dunes. Ari made good omelettes for herself and Marianne.

We decided to jeep up the road that parallels Medano Creek. We had to let air out of the tires so that we would not sink into the soft sand. We went up a few miles, and stopped to look at the creek.

Richard and the girls decided to cross the creek and climb up the steep dune wall. The water was ice cold, and Erica decided to turn around before we got to the other side. Ariana went part way up the dune, while Richard and Erica went back to the car. We saw a guy snowboard the steep dune, closely followed by his dog; pretty impressive.



We drove up further, and got into real jeeping, bouncing over the soft sand, including the truck's first stream crossing. In some places the trail threaded between two trees, with six inches on each side of our dualies. We saw a lot of deer, and bear claw scars on the aspen trees.

When we got back to the paved road, we added air back to the tires, and drove into Alamosa for some shopping. After we got home, the sun came out, and we saw blue sky for the first time that day.



Hi, It's Ari, just giving you a different look on the day, When I woke up it was fairly windy and insanely cold. We went jeeping and on the way up it was amazingly fun. We stopped to get a view and I insisted that we go climbed, Grandma said no way but the rest of us went. The lake was so cold it was like knives stabbing into you, so we ran. About 2 more crossings and Erica Chickened so Her and Grandpa went back, while i went on. I was going to go to the top while waiting for Grandpa, but then looked up and it looked like it was going to storm with lightening and thunder in that package, so i stayed mid-center on the dune, when I saw Grandpa I got ready to go then a guy on a snowboard came rushing by and his dog, Godard, following close behind. We then went down the path more where Grandpa started to Chicken because of the river, but we forced him to go. It was fun but by the look of Grandpa's face, he was scared out of his mind!!! We went back, pumped up the tires, then went to a nice little town called Alamosa. We went shopping and then went home. We played Skip Bo and got ready for bed. A Great day, but could have been better if it was a warm afternoon. But hey!, That's Colorado for Ya!!!