Cold-ish weather camping

The elk rut gets serious in a couple of weeks.
After you see the Park, try some of the areas around it, which will be nice and quiet in comparison.

JTrac wrote:
We are supposed to be in Estes Park, Co next Tuesday. The Weather Channel says a high of 31 and a low of 23 with 70% chance of snow. I may push it back a day.

Estes Park should be getting beautiful, and as a plus, the elk should be going into full rut soon! A great time to be in the Rockies! memtb

pnichols wrote:

memtb wrote:

ppine wrote:

garyp4951 wrote:
I'm moving to Wyoming. lol

I tried that in 1987. Town was 7,200 feet. YOu can plant tomatoes in late June. The aspens start to turn in the third week in August. You have to like winter, since it is most of the year.

It was minus 38 degrees F in my driveway. Not the wind chill, the temperature. It is the windiest state. It is much colder in the nearby mountains.

We like it this way!! Helps keep the population under control. We need a few good, cold winters to drive out a couple hundred thousand folks.....it’s getting too crowded! memtb

How about the opposite ... heat... like from open flames? Maybe CA's recent fires will drive out a few here, too.

We did move our RV, temporarily, to another place in case we had to evac, but thankfully it wasn't necessary. My favorite Native American chant is now "stay away iona"! ;)

P.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona,_South_Dakota

pnichols, Heat, that’s a real problem! I can put on more clothes for the cold.....but, to remain legal......I can only remove part of my clothing! memtb

We are supposed to be in Estes Park, Co next Tuesday. The Weather Channel says a high of 31 and a low of 23 with 70% chance of snow. I may push it back a day.

memtb wrote:

ppine wrote:

garyp4951 wrote:
I'm moving to Wyoming. lol

I tried that in 1987. Town was 7,200 feet. YOu can plant tomatoes in late June. The aspens start to turn in the third week in August. You have to like winter, since it is most of the year.

It was minus 38 degrees F in my driveway. Not the wind chill, the temperature. It is the windiest state. It is much colder in the nearby mountains.

We like it this way!! Helps keep the population under control. We need a few good, cold winters to drive out a couple hundred thousand folks.....it’s getting too crowded! memtb

How about the opposite ... heat... like from open flames? Maybe CA's recent fires will drive out a few here, too.

We did move our RV, temporarily, to another place in case we had to evac, but thankfully it wasn't necessary. My favorite Native American chant is now "stay away iona"! ;)

P.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona,_South_Dakota

memtb wrote:
JAC1982, It’s 32 F in Pinedale right now, probably a little cooler up at the lakes. So, for those not familiar with our temperatures.....we can and often do go below freezing any month of the year! It only got down to 44 at our home this morning.....but, it was a very welcome, nice, cool morning! I don’t see us getting in the pool today! ;) memtb

That sounds fine to me. I think it's pretty cool all over the Rockies today. I think Mother Nature knew we were installing a whole house fan today at our house, so decided to make it so we don't need to use it today LOL! We eventually will have a second home out in Barger (technically a Boulder address) so the cold weather doesn't keep us away! Husband grew up in Rock Springs and now his dad lives in Pinedale too. If we're going to be freezing cold, at least we'll have a view of the mountains up there :)

ppine wrote:

garyp4951 wrote:
I'm moving to Wyoming. lol

I tried that in 1987. Town was 7,200 feet. YOu can plant tomatoes in late June. The aspens start to turn in the third week in August. You have to like winter, since it is most of the year.

It was minus 38 degrees F in my driveway. Not the wind chill, the temperature. It is the windiest state. It is much colder in the nearby mountains.

We like it this way!! Helps keep the population under control. We need a few good, cold winters to drive out a couple hundred thousand folks.....it’s getting too crowded! memtb

garyp4951 wrote:
I'm moving to Wyoming. lol

I tried that in 1987. Town was 7,200 feet. YOu can plant tomatoes in late June. The aspens start to turn in the third week in August. You have to like winter, since it is most of the year.

It was minus 38 degrees F in my driveway. Not the wind chill, the temperature. It is the windiest state. It is much colder in the nearby mountains.

Start with down sleeping bags, then everything is easy.

We've had lows in the high 60s here in Denver foothills area for what seems like months. Combined with the smoke, we've been running the home a/c for way too long now without opening the windows at night.

This morning I was greeted with a lovely 44 degrees at 5am. Sat outside enjoying my first cup of coffee in the cool air and loved it.