Spring breakup is bittersweet! What do you mean the creek IS the county road!

I finally decided to ride with the Zeller's when 4 vehicles went up Montecillo Box Canyon. The canyon is named after the Monticello Box Ranch. Then if I thought Ken could make the trip we would go next week when another groups is going. NO, NO, NO. He isn't going up there. folk in the Wagon Master's pkp counted the number of times we crossed the creek - something like 107. Then I found out this WAS the county road.

Sixteen miles up the canyon driving and crossing the creek over and over and over and...........
OR just flat driving IN the creek!

The cottonwood trees were amazing. Many were 6-10' across the butt with many limbs coming out at all angles. These trees stand the test of time. No matter how bad the weather these trees have stayed, grown deep roots and surviving.

And then we came out into a valley where a hot spring flows into the creek. Of course we had to walk up there - and I decided that I'd walk in the creek to help them get across. Imagine walking in the creek the end of March. Not cold at all................:)


We had lunch and headed back home through Monticello and Chloride. At Chloride there is a cool museum and it had a scale just like the one that was in our store in Hereford. I will take Ken to Chloride - it is paved the entire way there and back.

Well here is what our "home" yard looked like the morning we left for Wyoming.

By nightfall even though we had seen an "elk" we also found snow!

It sure was hard to leave all of the friends we have made this winter. What a special group they all are.

We stayed just inside the Colorado border and woke to snow the next morning. We headed on toward Ft Collins. THAT is another story.