Since we couldn't camp on the 4th, we went up Friday morning for a long weekend. We've had a month of record heat and drought, but this weekend it chose to rain and rain hard. Friday afternoon our battery died, so D left to go get another one. He was gone 4 hours and it rained the whole time. The Poudre canyon actually was closed due to mud slides in the fire area. We also had a little river run through our campsite from all the rain. We spent a lot of time in the camper!!
Saturday was cloudy and threatening rain most of the day, but it stayed dry until just before supper. So we got 2 really long rides in and only saw one other rider. The area we camp is near the High Park Fire area (at one point on the drive up we saw the burn area within a half mile of the road), so with the fire ban still in effect, rain in the forecast and driving by the fire still burning scared most people away. So instead of 50-100 different campers throughout the trails and meadows, we saw 3!! There were a few day riders, but we really did have the place to ourselves. We even were the first ones on the trails for the season so we had to do some tree clean-up of fallen trees. The first ride we went on took us on all the major trails and had us out for over 2 hours. Both C and I fell asleep! After lunch we went on another long ride which took us through some streams. I got really wet! What a fun weekend.
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