T'Dubing along the Arkansas River Headwaters

Yesterday, June 9

First, last evening's sunset while parked along US50 and the turnoff for Westcliffe.

I drove the Honda CR-V to check out what would end up being 5 candidate vacant land properties.  Spent the morning criss-crossing the area south of my campsite to no avail.

All the properties were either too hilly or had sketchy looking neighborhoods.

Oh well.  I hung out at camp the rest of the day, relaxing with audiobooks.  Got some threatening weather in the late afternoon but it turned out to be much of nothing.

Today, June 10

Spent the first half of the morning riding my TW200 up and down US50 within 10 miles east/west of Texas Creek.

Some views of the rock formations and headwaters of the Arkansas River:

I then rode past the village of Cotopaxi, to the vicinity of Howard, CO to check out National Forest Access Roads I had seen during other trips.

First was Kerr Gulch Road, found 3 likely sites for future boondocking; though only one had usable cell signal.

I was at the same, pursuing these views of "nearby" mountain peaks:

I also checked out County Road 6 which seems to deadends at a USFS campground with tiny campsites.

Motoring back towards camp, I gassed up in Cotopaxi after this shot of the rock formations near the village.

Entering back into the OHV area I'm camping at, spotted these foundation remnants which were curious:

I returned just in time for lunch.  It was quite warm by now and sunny.

Things would cool a bit with growing cloud cover as the afternoon wore on.  Spent the afternoon blogging after processing pics.

I did go for a few miles of riding within the OHV area on the TW200.  Lots of steep single track and the wider trails were deep sand in spots, not very enjoyable.