Moab

To get away from the winter weather, Tyler and I packed up the dogs and took a camping trip. Instead of heading immediately west to the warm weather in Moab, we decided to check out Gunnison National Forest. We didn't want to be around a lot of people (Moab was site host for Jeep Week), so we decided to brave the chances of a camp site being thawed out already.

We found a spot down a Forest Service Road outside the mining town Somerset — which is along 133. We had the river right next to our campsite, a nice fire, and plenty of space for the dogs to explore. It was so nice we thought we'd stay there the whole time.

I woke up to raindrops hitting the tent. When we finally worked up the courage to leave the warm shelter — mostly because we had to relieve ourselves — we discovered that it was sleeting, so our tent was covered with snow. For the record, Tyler can move pretty fast in the early hours of the morning with the right kind of motivation.We threw everything in the back of the truck and took off to Moab to dry off.

We stopped in Delta to repack, and grab a hot breakfast at the Stockyard. Did you know Delta is the city of murals? At least two buildings on every block along main street have a mural painted on the side.

When we arrived in Moab, the first thing we did was set up the tent, and in less than 45 minutes all of our stuff was dry.

After setting up camp, we took a long walk down the road to check everything out since I had never camped there before. Here are some pictures from our hike.

Later on we cooked some burgers for dinner. We were a little overzealous with the amount of toppings, so once you wrapped your hands around the burger, there was no setting it down again. It's always amazing how great simple food tastes when you've been camping. Tyler declared our burgers the best camping burgers ever. Here are some pictures showing his excitement.

The next morning we picked up and headed back home to winter. Hopefully summer will decided to join is here in the Vail Valley sooner than later.