Craig's blog

We got up, ate breakfast and left at 7:30 for our jeep ride out of Ouray. I had done this as a child and as a young adult and was looking forward to it again. We took the Yankee Boy Basin tour. It was a fantastic tour. All the girls loved it. The wildflowers were in bloom. The road was bumpy enough to make the girls laugh, but it really wasn’t very rough. We could have done in Snowie (although I don’t think we would have wanted to). I would have enjoyed driving it in a jeep, but this certainly worked out well. We had no rain, which was pretty amazing because we probably haven’t had any other 5 hour stretch without rain in 3 days.

Here are some pictures from the Jeep trip.

It rained pretty hard in the afternoon for a couple of hours. We explored Ouray some – ate in a French bakery and spent a couple of hours in the Ouray history museum which was designed to be enjoyed by kids.

This evening we came back and had another nice campfire and dinner around the table between showers. We’ve been fortunate to get two nice dinners in outside here, even though it rained on either side of both (and sprinkled a little during).

Tomorrow we’re off to Monarch Campground at 10,500 feet by way of Montrose and Gunnison.