July 7, 2007

IT REALLY IS AS STEEP AS IT LOOKS



We arrived in Boulder, Wyoming the day before yesterday. The RV park here is Wind River View Campground which is our Coast-To-Coast home park. Even though we are allowed to stay here for two weeks free every year, this is our first time. We are now at about 7000 feet elevation so it is considerably cooler than it was in the Salt Lake City area. This a beautiful area between two mountain ranges with snow on the mountain tops. Yesterday we rested from the 300 plus mile trip here. It was fairly difficult driving due to several steep mountain passes which make pulling the trailer hard. Fortunately, most of the trip amounted to driving fairly level on the high plains.

This morning we got up and drove in to Pinedale which is the nearest town of any size (population approximately 1400). We ate breakfast and then drove around the town and then drove up into the mountains to a beautiful lake. Fremont Lake is supposed to be among the deepest lakes in the US at about 600 feet. While there we made a reservation to rent a pontoon boat for half a day on Monday morning. We got rain this afternoon, so hopefully the weather will be good on Monday.

Last night we met a couple that are camped next to us and had a nice visit. They are leaving in the morning so they invited us to go out to eat with them this afternoon. We went back to the place where we ate breakfast and then came back and visited with them for a couple of hours. Coming in this afternoon we got a picture of the Bald Eagle that has a nest in the campground.