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| We got a great treed site. |
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| Our picnic table. |
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| The many signs of the campground. |
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| The creek behind our site. |
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| A gentle creek shoots off the main creek and goes behind some sites like ours. |
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| A little further down. |
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| The wood that separates the gentle creek from the main one. |
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| The main one is too rough to go into. |
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| This is what Chalk Creek looks like. |
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| Blossom rests on the picnic table. It was rainy so we didn't want to put our mat down and get it dirty. |
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| The creek the next day with the sun out. |
I really liked Mount Princeton but there were no official walking trails. You just sort of wander through the woods. I don't think it will be on our list to go back.
At Mount Princeton our refrigerator started to act up. It was fine on electric. When we started it on propane it was fine. However when it cycled off and tried to go back on while on propane it showed a fault. If we moved the switch to restart it then it would restart. It was only when it tried to restart itself that it wouldn't. Over night I moved the ice packs from the freezer to the fridge so it wouldn't get warm. I keep the ice packs so that I can do this whenever we are parked in a non-level position and have to turn the fridge off.
It seemed like a loose wire or bad connection so will put some conductive grease on it. We unplugged and plugged back in the wires and didn't see the problem again but it may have not been enough time to fully test it.
On the way home it rained again. Our windshield wipers reset themselves so they were resting in different positions on the windshield so one more thing to trouble shoot when we got home.
There was a delay on 285 and as we got closer we saw the results of an attempt to pass gone wrong. Looked to be a head on collision with one car straight into a rock wall on the side of the road and the other t-boned in the middle. A short time later we had a car attempting to pass coming the other way and looked like it was going to go right into us. Luckily they got back in their lane on time but it was very scary after seeing the crash. Needless to say we rode with our lights on and an extra sense of awareness.
One of the most stunning sights I've ever seen is the Collegiate Range, which includes Mt. Princeton, from US 235 going north out of Salida CO on a sunny mid-September afternoon when the aspen had turned solid gold. There were patches of gold and green on the mountain sides with some low clouds also in the picture, which were very low on the sides of the mountains. The mountain ridges were in the sun. If I lived closer, I would make a point of returning that time of the year to see this.
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