Just got back from a couple of weeks near Buena Vista, Co. We camped at Chalk Creek RV Park in Nathrop, Co. That is a great place to camp; very clean and well maintained. Its also centrally located for offroad trips in the Chalk Creek Area.
We drove out the southern route on I-40 and sent one night at the El Reno, Ok KOA and another night at the Colorado City KOA. The Colorado City KOA was great, but the El Reno KOA needs to do so maintenance on their bathouse. Itโs a pretty new facility but they have let it fall into disrepair. Only one of 3 toilets were working and only 1 of 3 showers were working. The place was pretty filthy. Not sure what is going on there; we always stop there on the way out and experienced no issues in the past.
Had a front brake caliper start start sticking/dragging coming down the mtn pass after Bishopโs Castle. Right front was about 250 degf and left front was about 900 degf and pulling to the right badly. We stopped at the Ford dealer in Salida; Joan had the pads but had to order the calipers. They came in a couple of days later and I replaced them at the campground. No issues to report after that.
Spent a couple of weeks jeeping in the St Elmo/Tincup/Mt Antero area. Drove some great trails and mountain passes with the 6 friends who travelled out there with us. Below is a video of our trip across Tomichi Pass, I will post some other videos and photos later. That is a very beautiful area. I had hoped to run across one of the โProspectorโ reality show folks mining on Mt Antero. I never saw any of them, but one of my buddies saw Amada Atkins at the Hot Springs Store and my other buddy saw Duane walking down the street in Salida.
Long but uneventful trip home, except my buddy blew out a tire on his car hauler trailer coming across Kansas.
Tomichi Pass VideoTrip PhotosIron Chest Trail Video
