A cute sign about not littering in the campgrounds
I thought you may like to read this cute sign at our campground. I hope you had a great Sunday.
We woke up to a brisk 43 degrees in Leadville CO and the high was 63 degrees in Frisco CO. It was overcast all day. About 4:00 pm the wind came up and rocked the Minnie. When Larry went to bed at 9:00 pm it sprinkled a little bit. It suppose to be the same tomorrow..
We were in Matchless Campground for the last week with no hook-ups but with our solar panels we got by just fine. We have moved to Pine Cove Campground, not sure how long we will be here but we might stay a week. It's suppose to be overcast for a couple of days, which means I'll have to conserve how much power I use.
This morning Larry slept in a little bit and woke up about 6:30 am. I woke up about 7:15 am. I woke up at 4:30 am to go to the restroom but I went back to bed. We weren't going too far so we weren't in any hurry to leave. The check-out time is 12:00 pm and the check-in time is 2:00 pm. When we are going to move on we get up and put things away and get ready to go. We have a quick breakfast ( coffee cakes and shake). Then if needed we do a dumpster run, I did it last night. We visited with Ron for a little while, he's also moving on today. We were on the road by 9:00 am.
Our next destination was 45 miles down the road at Frisco, Co. to White River National Forest. It has two campgrounds, Peak One and Pine Cove. Peak One has three loops and uses reservations. Pine Cove is first come first serve. We're staying in Pine Cove. It's setup like the overflow campground at Matchless, except it has a fire ring, grill and picnic table. There's a burn ban at White River National Forest due to the forest fires. We were surprised Matchless didn't have one because a few weeks ago there was a bad fire very close to the campground. They had to not only evacuate the campgrounds but some of the nearby housing. The National Fish Hatchery is still closed. Due to the smoke we didn't think we would be able to come here, fortunately they got some rain which put out the fire and the smoke was gone.
Our drive today was on a two lane scenic highway through the mountains called Scenic Highway 91. It was a beautiful drive. As we drove we saw the Aspens starting to change to the Fall colors. We drove through Leadville to Silverthorne. Silverthorne is a few miles from Frisco. We parked the Minnie in a parking lot very close to the Visitor Center and Recreation Center. Before going to the recreation center Larry checked his air pressure censor because one of them wasn't working. He was happy the sensor was still there he just had to replace the battery. Now it works, he has batteries for the other tires sensors if he needs them. After doing this five minutes project we walked over to the recreation center to take showers, they cost $8.00 each but are an unlimited amount of time, the shower rooms are private and very nice, they even provide soap.
Once we finished showering we stopped by the Walmart in Frisco to pick up a few things we were getting low on. After putting the items away we walked over to NAPA Auto & Truck Parts store to replace the clamps Larry used the other day when working on Ron's generator. While there he asked if they had an extension he needed but they didn't have the right one. After buying the clamps we walked back to the Minnie.
We drove further down the road to the county RV Dump Station. We didn't have to dump the tanks but we were getting a little low on fresh water. We were surprised there was no one at the dump so we dumped the tanks and filled the water tanks. It cost $10 dollar to dump and the water was free. We got there just in time because a couple other RVs ended up waiting for us to finish.
Afterwards we went to the campground. We arrived at the campground at 1:00 pm. It was very busy, they had a big bicycle event going on at the Frisco Adventure Park, which is located by the campground. The event was the Colorado High School MTB League Race #1, the Frisco Bay Invitational Race. The event took place August 29th to August 30th. We saw a lot of bicyclists at the park. We turned around in the park and went back to the campground. We were surprised to see the event considering we didn't know it was going on. We had no problem finding a site we took site #1. This is the first time we have been here so it's exciting.
We'll probably stay about a week because there are a lot of trails here and around the area. Once we setup the Minnie we paid for three nights to start with. They don't have running water bathrooms but they have vault toilets and water by the bathrooms. Our site should be looking over Dillon Reservoir but it's almost empty. There is a boat ramp right beside us but it is closed because there is no water. Our site is very nice.
New campground and new National Forest
Dillon Reservoir
After dinner we walked around Peak One Campground three loops of 2 miles. This campground has very nice sites but how we travel we don't make reservations. The roads are paved through out the campground and they have running water restrooms. It was a nice walk.
I played my Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Spider Adventure of 20 games. It took me 3 hours and 7 minutes to complete, which put me in 10th place in my group. Today I didn't play Angry Birds Friends or Angry Birds 2.
By the end of the day I had done 10,000 steps.
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