Last year TC and I joined up with Jim and Bo and about 200 of their family and friends for a big ass campin trip up on the Rim...... It was a great time for sure but this year we opted for a little quieter option to the same campout...... 40± peeps around the campfire singin and jokin until 2 AM is out of my league for relaxation...... This year TC shared one of his favorite campin spots with us that was merely a ¼ mile from the big croud that was Jim and Bo's group......

Cristina and I rolled into camp about 9 on Friday night, 30± minutes to set up and another 30 minutes or so at the campfire and we were out...... Somethin about 7500 feet above sea level, Pine, fresh air.

Saturday morning we got up when we felt like it as there was no schedule at all for this trip.... In fact, I was the one that said "I drug this junk all the way up here, lets go drive it around" or we would of lounged in camp all day.......

It was pure torture to have lunch and drive in these conditions..... I tell ya.....

We cruised around on some of Thoms favorite hunting roads and came accross many meadows but none like this one;



we worked our way back to the main Bull & Bo camp but since I had a nightmare camoing trip to this same location about 7 years ago I wanted to check out a trail I remembered from then. It was more of a quad/side x side trail but it was fun any way;

We got to the top of the ridge to a T and this was to the right;

We werent getting under that down tree plus it was a dead end anyway do we went the other direction;

Donna was about ready to shoot me at this point;



At the top of the next ridge we had this view;

Mormon Lake (meadow) in the foreground and the San Fransisco Peaks in the back ground

To the west;
(Yeas thats a fire but theoretically a controlled fire)

We were above this big ass playground and had to make our way down. :donna: Donna had enough;

Everyone made it to the bottom of the hills and I went to apologize to Donna :donna: for bringin her down this and she said, and I quote "Oh, its alright I dont want to stop him from havin any fun. GET OFF THAT ROCK" All in the same breath;




Cristina and I about fell over laughin so damn hard........ It was perfect timing..... this is why we love Donna on the trail..........

Here is the view from the bottom of the pit;

We then took a standard FS road back down to the Jim & Bo camp but saw this on the way;



We made our way to the Jim & Bo camp where we hung out for an hour or so and then decided it was time to hit our camp for some dinner. While dinner was coooking I grabbed some pics of the camp. It really sucked here;
The Namesake;



Cristina loungin by the fire pit;



TC gettin comfortable;

Sunday we got up and hung out for a while, I saw a coyote runnin the perimeter of the meadow and we headed out to Hutch Mountain lookout and fire tower. On the way up we saw another one of these;



We got to the gate and it was locked closed, here is another sign near by;


8200 feet and 400 more to go and we were denied...... :boo:

We turned around and headed back to camp to load up and reluctantly head home....... :boo:

On the way up Friday night we noticed they had a controlled burn goin on right at the 260/87 split above Strawberry...... it was dark and the fire was right next to the road but the camera wasnt handy to catch the eerie glow was in the forest..... on the way back we caught a couple but no where near as cool or scary as Friday night;



Another awesome weekend out with my girl and this time with great friends.........

I was looking at the pics thinking I had done this trail... and then I saw this pic.

This is one of the first trails I did in my 2000 TJ with 29's street tires... Paula was riding shot gun with me (ask her about the mustered)

Thanks for the blast from the past!

fatbob309 wrote:I was looking at the pics thinking I had done this trail... and then I saw this pic.

This is one of the first trails I did in my 2000 TJ with 29's street tires... Paula was riding shot gun with me (ask her about the mustered)

Thanks for the blast from the past!

You can access this in a stock truck up the main road...... we came up the narrow 2 track from the top..... not real challenging but tight and twisty with a decent hill climb....... Looks like there have been lots there before us...... :D

We did dirt from cort junction to munds park area. Got lost a few times but yeah it was nothing more than a dirt road and a stinky stinky cow mud hole...

fatbob309 wrote:We did dirt from cort junction to munds park area. Got lost a few times but yeah it was nothing more than a dirt road and a stinky stinky cow mud hole...

That would be an awesome trip..... this pit would have been quite a ways out of your way for that trip tho....... Dang you did get lost huh? :p