Day 4: Buena Vista, CO

We have arrived in beautiful, mountain country of Buena Vista!! This was a darling little town nestled in the mountains of saguache. Not only was the town quaint, with great little stores, coffee shops (The Roastery) and restaurant the people could not have been more friendly and welcoming.

We set up camp in a perfect campsite about 25mins from town called Hecla Junction, campsite 13. It was located in a canyon, along side the Arkansas river and old railroad tracks of the past.

Eager to get out of the car and do some real hiking. Eric chose the route, which was a little extreme to say the least. The path that was both steep, full of loose gravel and littered with rocks and cacti. After the 2 hour trek, nearly peeing my pants scared to death the roots I was hanging on to would give way to a good 400ft canyon drop-off, we got back to the car, exhausted, and began to set up camp. Mere and I worked on the tent and organized dinner, while Eric started a fire with some flint. (He learned it from all those Bear Grylls shows ;-) and completed this task with his handy Gerber knife). Very impressive!

Eric & I played the guitar and Mere joined in for singing. (Songs: Baby I am Yours-Arctic Monkeys and Wagon Wheel-Old Crows Medicine Show). By 9pm we were all poop-tired and began to unwind, crawling into our new tent, reading books by headlamp. Tomorrow we are off for white water rafting on the Arkansas.
-Carolyn