Today dawned clear and sunny but clouded up this afternoon and we had a few light showers to contend with but otherwise it was a nice day.
Two Jeeps dropped out today so we are down to 8 in the caravan. I guess we were too rough on them. We started off with the long drive over Cottonwood Pass and over to the road we were on yesterday out of St. Elmo. But this time we turned up toward Hancock Pass. This road is not technically difficult but it is very narrow, steep and rocky. There was no rest from bouncing around for the whole 7 miles it took to get us to the 12,140 ft. pass with a time of 1.5 hours. We then drove up to Mt. Antero which is 14,239 ft. Four Jeeps went all the way to the top, and two drove over to White Mountain at a little over 13,500 ft. and two stayed at the 13,100 ft. parking area. The view from the top is spectacular!
Then back down that very steep, narrow, rocky road with a stop for lunch along the way. We went back down toward St. Elmo and then headed east to Pitkin where we had ice cream and then back toward Taylor Lake on Tin Cup Pass. The rest of these roads were not so steep and rocky but they were still a bit of a challenge until we got near the bottom and it was just a dusty, gravel road. That is when we stopped to watch a bull moose with a huge rack. It would have been nice if he had been closer but we still got a pretty good shot, I think. We also saw several deer along the roads today and waited on a herd of free-range cattle to cross in front of us.
We didn't get back to the RV's until after 6 PM so we eat out at the only restaurant in the area with friends from the caravan.
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