Good Thursday morning…it’s about 6:30 am Mountain Standard Time in Frisco, Colorado. Frisco is 80 miles west of Denver just off of I-70. We are in the White Mountains National Forest…our campground is Heaton Bay. Frisco is where we will be spending the next 4 months working as campgrounds hosts but Heaton Bay campground is not going to be our location…we will be about 5 miles from here at Peak One. Peak One is on the other side of Frisco on the road to Breckenridge, CO…Breckenridge is less than 7 miles from Frisco. But I digress…
This is what we woke up to this morning.
We have had temps at or below freezing at night since we got here last Sunday. We have predictions of snow/rain for the next few days and have had snow flurries off and on all day yesterday.
Today is our first actual day of work…at least being on the payroll. We are not at our campground, Peak One, because they are having a problem with the water. We have 3 loops at Peak One…Bob and I are hosting loops A & C and our friends Carolyn and Roy Trout are hosting loop B. We drove out and checked out our loops on Tuesday and Carolyn & Roy are not even able to get into their host space due to snow. Roy was able to drive through it because his truck has four wheel drive…there is only one bad area of snow but there is no way they could get their motorhome through it right now. Not sure exactly when we will move…right now we have electricity but they have to bring us water and pump our tanks. We will have full hookups once we they get Peak One up and running.
After spending last summer in the Black Hills National Forest in Hill City, South Dakota I have to say we were shocked when we saw this area. We had heard that the forest here had been devastated due to pine beetles but we were not quite prepared for what we found. Heaton Bay looks pretty good…Peak One looks worse…it is not a pretty campground at all. I would be hard pressed to find a suitable area to pitch a tent at any of these campgrounds…they are filled with tree stumps where the Forest Service has had to cut down trees to try and stop the infestation and to clear dead trees.
I guess I should tell you that these campgrounds are located on and around Dillon Reservoir which is very pretty. The water is low right now but the folks in the area are worried about the run off once the snow melts in the surrounding mountains and reaches the “lake”.
The towns of Frisco, Dillon and Silverthorne sort of all run together and are very pretty…I will have more pictures soon.
This is a picture of the Dillon Lake (reservoir is too hard to keep typing) that I took the other day from one of the public areas.
A large portion of the lake is still iced over.
When Bob came back in from taking the dogs out a few minutes ago, he commented that it did not feel like it was only 26 degrees…I am thinking it feels warmer because the air is so dry…but 26 is 26.
Moving on.
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