Saints John with the Maverick X3 - Camping and Riding

We are ready to embark on another adventure. We have the side by side loaded for

camping

. We started out a little rainy and I think it will probably rain most of the weekend. We've been

riding

for a couple of hours and decided it was probably time to take a short lunch break. The rain has practically not let up. It's been raining the whole time so we put up the canopy and Crystal is starting a little. bit of lunch So far I think the ride has been pretty good, other than being wet and having a couple of traffic jams and some problems, yes, pulling someone off a ledge, their front axle is like falling off a cliff, but that's it just part of the adventure and it's a nice time so I'm still having fun it's just a little wet and a little cold yeah let's see how cold it is what do you have in your shopping bag in this bag?

Yes, this is our sleeping bag, we get up. here and it was It was raining from the start and our sleeping bag is probably waterproof, but we were a little worried, we sure didn't want a wet sleeping bag, so it just provides a little more protection, so we are preparing the camp. I found a pretty decent spot, it's right next to the road which we normally don't like, but the weather cooperated, the sun only came out for a moment and we thought we'd better set up the tent while the rain stopped. because I think it's supposed to be It's raining a little bit more again tonight and Crystal is setting up the air mattress, everything's fine, uh, nice, it looks nice in there.

I'm struggling, I'm trying to turn him over, don't try hard, I think he's sleepy. We were discussing how. I thought I brought a big tarp, but it's not a big tarp, so I'll have to settle for tonight, good enough to have a shelter to make dinner and hang out for a while. We have some dinner, we get a little better. a little bit from the last time I don't know if it's an improvement, we'll call it an improvement, but it's probably more of a downgrade, it's smaller than we have, yeah, it's just different, so we ended up buying the smaller one, we have a small stove smaller just to cook for this type of On the trip, instead of bringing the huge stove we bought just this small one, we also got a different skillet instead of bringing the cast iron one so we did a few things to help with the weight and space, we were able to reduce an entire tub, which was nice and makes it a little bit easier, so we have a nice skillet dinner and it's starting to get cold.

We bundle up, put on our hats and jackets and coats and I think it'll probably be an hour or so and it'll start raining again, so. I'm going to finish dinner and then probably go to bed pretty early tonight. I think I'll at least get the sleeping bag and stay warm. We spent the night. We had a good rain and wind storm, but it calmed down quite a bit. fast it didn't last it didn't last long and uh, so we just got up, the sun was just starting to come out and we woke up with frost, x3 it has like rainwater that is like ice on the windshield, so it fell. to freeze, which we expected, so it really makes a big difference when you expect it and you're prepared for it to not be as cold as we sometimes get, but I'm pretty ready to make coffee anyway, so let's go have breakfast.

Come on, We finished breakfast and packed up a bit, we hung up a couple of tarps to dry so we wouldn't pack too many wet things, but I think while the tent is drying we're going to go for a quick trip and there was a detour at the top where we go down to this campsite and the other direction we would go up like to the top of a mountain, so we'll go check it out and then we'll probably go back to camp, we have some lunch and then we pack up and leave so we Finish lunch, we pack up all the Camp and we are preparing to return to the truck.

We had a good trip and the weather was nice today just to be able to go up and get to the top of what that was. glacier peak glacier I think so, uh, we did that this morning and grazed, yeah, and from up there you could see a couple of fourteeners, actually, that was cool and now we're headed, like I said, back to the truck, so get some footage of heading back and then, probably looking forward to the i-70 traffic, always a fun Sunday afternoon ritual, we go, like that, like that, so we make it, we come back, we completely forget to film once we made it back to the parking lot but we had a storm and we were just rushing to unpack everything and then load it into the trailer so we didn't have a chance but we made it back now we are heading home.

I think it was a pretty good weekend, yeah, despite having all the rain. right in the At the beginning and we were cold, we were very cold from the beginning just because of all that rain, but at the end of the day yesterday it warmed up about four after three, a warm sun came out and it was a nice evening. today was great it just started raining on us literally as soon as we got back to the truck which is awesome so yeah I think this trail system is really nice as far as alpine climbing above the tree line there is some great writing, yes.

I think we'll be back I think I think similar to Webster Pass and vidcon I think this will have to be at least once a year, where we make sure we get to this trail system, enjoy, enjoy these areas, yeah, with that I think That's what concludes this weekend. in the back, alright, bye, alright, bye