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1mtnman
Explorer II
May 28, 2014

Camping in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park

I have been looking forward to spending a couple of days in RMNP as soon as the snow was off so was able to do that this week. We arrived at Moraine Park around noon on Monday, Memorial Day. We arranged our reservations so that the holiday weekend folks would be on their way home or travels to other points. This is always a great time of year as the snow is still quite heavy in the high country and the streams are running at capacity. The elk are getting ready to calve and the meadows have many animals for easy viewing.
Here is a picture of our campsite.
We met many friendly campers who were enjoying this early time of year in the park.
We consider ourselves to be so luck to only have to travel less than 35 miles to this wonderful area.
  • Mike: I'm not sure what you mean with sway while in overhead. I haven't noticed a lot of movement while in my overhead. There have been times when it is very windy when I have dropped my jacks to stabilize the camper.
  • Nice picture and great campsite! I am within proximity of this area as well, live in Broomfield.

    I was not so fortunate with my camping success, though. We attempted to acquire a camp spot near a lake (Carter Reservoir), figuring that the rain would have sent a few people home early. As it turned out, that was definitely the case but I did not know that the camp hosts are still required to hold their reserved site even though the people who reserved the spot had clearly vacated it. I ended up sleeping for the first time in my camper while it was parked in my driveway. This was not a bad thing in terms of of testing things out and being better prepared for the "Real Thing".

    I found a few things that need to be addressed including missing items and things that could have been better organized/packed. I also learned that campers can "sway" a bit more than I anticipated while in the overhead are. Q: would a sway bar address this?

    Cheers,
    Mike
  • Just as an additional note, while looking at Longs Peak (the peak in the picture) a helicopter fly over and made several passes near the peak. When we arrived home we found listening to TV that a hiker is stranded on the peak and is in a difficult position to be rescued. His foolishness will put several more rescuer in serious jeopardy and may cost him his life.