Super Awesome September Wheeling Adventure

probably in for something

 

ok cool. im not too familiar with back ways to each trail. i do however know the trails. so...... can we make it to a camp site around wheeler the night before, after running swan and radical hill? same for hc, after wheeler can we wheel to the next campsite that day near hc?

attaboy

 

I like where this is going

 

posting relavent info here

we will experiment,
so you much attend

I have no clue how long they take, t saturday and sunday are the for sure planned days, before that its all up in the air really, so its super flexible to change around! Just tell me what you want to do and where and we will do it!

Thats why I have you people! For the good ideas! Lets do it!

well you already have once. so i guess youre grandfathered in lol




I wouldnt mind a night run somewhere in here as well. As long as one night we visit some local bars as promised.

 

Anybody have an open seat for holy cross trail on Sunday?

 

Still trying to figure out my schedule and if I'll be able to make it, but if I do, I'll have an open seat.

 

ok. so i think we need to focus on camping spots... thatll determine how we navigate via trails or roads to the next leg of the trip. working backwards, imo we need to camp near HC sat night. being a weekend, we need to try to be the first group on the trail.
so backwards from that, means we need to go from swan river trail system, to wheeler lake, to somewhere near HC and set up camp saturday.

^this is the part we need to figure out... are we gonna have time after wheeler to hit mosquito up and over? or should we go grab a beer somewhere on the road on the way to hc?
friday i feel like we are all in agreement is redcone>radical hill> swan river.

Mark when are u gonna be rolling into the mtns here? friday morning or thursday night?

 

I agree mr jace. I was working backwards when I was figuring it out to. I would love to hit as many trails as possible but I dont want to be rushed either to get a trail done. So im all up for beers saturday night

if the plan works ill get into town thursday afternoon. im planning on leaving thursday night and making it as far as comftorably possible and then sleeping and finishing in the morning. If a chunk of us are rolling out thursday afternoon I need to find a spot to meet and more importantly a spot to leave tires.

After HC is everyone planning a straight drive back to denver area? How far is that? If thats the case I would like to find a kind person willing to let me crach there before the drive back monday morning

 

yes ill be headed back after hc. i have a room if u wanna crash. i gotta work that monday so ill be gone early... as for the tires, u coming through denver thursday or western slope?

 

Whoops meant leaving Wednesday night and finishing thurs. I'm comming in and out of Denver

 

So if we take i70 over to HC from wheeler, we will pass through Vail & Minturn. Plenty of places to drink in Vail and a few Saloons in Minturn (its a very small town).

If we take Mosquito pass over to HC right after Wheeler, there's Leadville which also has a few pretty sweet old Saloons to hit up. Lots of old Mining sites to explore around here too.

Or we could stop in Breck after wheeler and grab some food and beers then head over Mosquito pass to camp somewhere closer to HC. Not sure if that's a good idea or not .

I will go with the flow, so whatever is decided by the group is good for me.

Just putting info out there for Mark to make a good boozing decision.

 

From the end of Wheeler, wouldn't going over Mosquito be damn near the quickest way to Leadville?

 

Yup, probably the most fun too. Hope you can make it Brett!

 

Really it's going to depend on when Wheeler gets finished. I say it is best to be closer to the next camp then anything. Bars are bars and we would still need to drive back to camp so you really cannot get shit faced anyways.

I still don't understand Thursday. Are we running Red Cone in the evening or camping in Hall Valley and running Red Cone/Radical first thing Friday morning?

If the weather is good running Red Cone in the evening to dark would be a kick in the ass. That high up and nothing but darkness would make me pucker.

 

Yeah, everyone could do it separately alone in the dark in a new stock jeep with temp tags and take a hard left at the top...

Wait...

 

because thats whats important. we might have a minor or two on the trip, so no clue what they are going to do lol

I also enjoy old mining sites and old style saloons sound entertaining. I love it all!

WANT!!!

I also dont really know whats happening thursday. I dont know what the time table will turn into, or how far everything is or how long it takes. so i dont know what makes sense haha

hey I have one of those

 

Yeah that guy was brilliant last year.

 

what time are u anticipating being in denver mark, lets start there

 

NO clue. 2? 3? Depending on how far I make it the previous night. Might also need parking for a vehicle till Monday

 

1.Mark-thurs to sunday
2.James-thurs to sunday
3.Charlie-thurs night to Sunday morning
4.Matt-sat to sun
5. Joe - thurs to sat (unless Rexus is ready than sunday as well)
6. Byron - thurs to sat (unless Rexus is ready than Sunday as well)
7.Eric - Thursday through Sunday (unless work shuts me down)
8. Jace- friday- sunday. ( asking for friday off from work tomorrow)
9. Lauren- Saturday and Sunday
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