Spring 2015-Return to the Rio

After many weeks fantasizing about places on the coast or on some lazy river, my attention has returned to the Rio Grande.  JD and Bea accompanied.  Jen always wants at least one person to come with me lest I fall off a cliff and can't get up.   I am trying to limit the work end of things to one bite sized project a trip so the kids don't feel like all they do is toil when they come up here.

The project this trip was to get a large construction site box to the bottom of the gorge.  The zipline, though untested with this kind of weight (100 lbs?) seemed the easiest and most feasible approach.  So we humped the heavy box up the sending ledge,  hooked her to the petzl trolley and away she went.  Great fun.  Beatrice admits that coming here is more fun now that we don't have to haul stuff up and down the gorge for hours on end.

Last night an epic battle was fought between the wind and our tarp tent.  It was not the most restful night of my life.  This experience convinced me that our next project needs to be constructing an 8x12 shed where we can camp out of the elements.  Bought six 10' cedar posts in Alamosa tonight.  Something to work on next trip.  Thinking of springing for bunk camp cots-four across to accomodate the fam.  Maybe it would be more sensible to construct 2 such sheds with an open windfree are in between.