Camping
Family camping adventures – the joys of roughing it with 2 kids and a dog in the Colorado mountains.
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Camping Throwback: Gordon Gulch
It’s Saturday and as it gets closer to spring, I’m dreaming more and more about camping, so I thought I might post a throwback to our first camping trip last summer. During our first year of regular camping in 2015, we learned that we much prefer dispersed camping to camping at campgrounds. We like being…
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Last Camping Trip Of Summer
Today’s the first day of fall, but it’s been hot and still quite summer-like in northern Colorado, so I’m still feeling every much in summer mode. It’s all most a month late, but I’m finally getting around to sharing our last camping trip for summer, which as at Eleven Mile State Park. This was an…
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A Weekend With Friends in Medicine Bow National Forest
Lately, all I’ve been posting have been giant photo bomb posts of the mountains, but I’m finding our forays into the wilderness around us so breathtaking that it’s hard not to share. We planned four camping trips this summer, one per month June through September; two of the trips were for our family alone and…
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Camping in Colorado State Forest State Park
On a Friday afternoon in June, we drove up the Poudre Canyon, through Roosevelt National Forest, to State Forest State Park. Chris and I had learned a little late this year that people start reserving camping spots in Colorado as early as January, so there were slimmer pickings when he went to reserve spots for us…
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Backyard Camping
After our trial run last fall in the freezing cold with borrowed gear and a sick baby, we crazily decided that camping regularly was something we wanted to do…because it really could only be uphill from there, right? The only problem we had was that we did not own a single piece of camping gear.…
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Film Friday: Our Camping Trip
📍 ColoradoJust in case you didn’t get enough of our camping trip, I also made a little video with clips from it. I really cannot wait until next summer when we decide to take the plunge and get our own tent so we can be out in the woods on a regular basis. There is almost…
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In the Mountains
This weekend we fulfilled one of my 30 before 30 goals and took the girls for their first ever camping trip. Friday night we loaded up the car with a borrowed tent and piles of blankets, and headed up to a campground buried in frost and fog. We have been going to the Unitarian church…
