Located near Howard, CO, Kerr Gulch Road is an access road into a large and forested BLM area.
I'd done a recce previously while staying at the Texas Creek OHV area. I displaced yesterday to the first camping spot I'd mapped.
I checked out all 3 spots I'd found during the earlier recce and they were all open. But I got lazy and take the first one which proved to be a mistake.
Mistake you ask? I had forgotten and violated the rule of never using a campsite that is big enough for more than one rig.
A couple of hunters from Pennsylvania with a big tundra truck and trailer towing a small ATV decided to park in the same site.
They weren't going to hang out they said, just using the spot to park the truck while they went off to do hunting stuff on their ATV so I wasn't too mad about it since it helped fill up the space. Still, annoying, especially since just I have mild down the road there was a good spot to leave a trailer and truck.
I went riding on Yagi in the late afternoon down this access road which leads you quite deep into the BLM area. No real scenic overlooks, just a forest road down heavily forested terrain.
I debated the idea of displacing to one of the other two campsites, but I found the second one occupied by a pickup truck from which I assume a hunter was wandering about. The remaining one is small, narrow and you have to back into it so it wasn't the best site.
So instead I planned to displace today to some point further east on my way home.
Had me a surprise visitor last night, right after the hunters left shortly before 8:00 p.m. after dragging their ATV in after dark.
Right after the hunters left, I spotted a large white something in the darkness near the camper:
He seemed friendly but I didn't go outside the RV to interact with it.
That was last night, this morning he shows up as I was packing up the RV and greeted me. Then I spotted a lady pushing a baby carriage with her kid; they turned out to be the owners.
A brief chat later with her and I had the name of the dog: Moose! They live in the house a quarter mile down the road closer to the highway. Apparently, they let Moose loose in the area, especially at night apparently, to do his patrolling.
By noon today, had found a "creekside" site in the Texas Creek OHV area. I'm counting on the OHV traffic noise to keep hunters from the area.
The area has recently seen heavy rain and I made sure to be away from terrain showing signs of erosion due to runoff. Still, I'll keep an eye on the weather though the forecast is for sunny and warm through the weekend
4 comments:
It is just hard to get away from folks.
A dog named Moose... interesting choice of name. Glad he wasn't bad tempered, looks like a big fella. Cheers, Sonja
So true, Oz, so true
SonjaM, in the dark....I was thinking Cujo would be a more fitting name.
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