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When I was a kid, we'd fill buckets from the river near the cabin we went to every summer west of Walden, Co, fill the old Igloo galvanized water cooler and drink that water. When we were out fishing that river, we'd just bend down and get a drink whenever we were thirsty (gotta keep those deer...

I think I may have camped at that site in the bottom pic in the late '80's.

I dream of taking my truck into the Maze. I don't have the nerve or any memory of what the Flint Trail is like, so it'll probably never happen.

Hagerman Pass has occupied a hallowed spot in the Colorado backcountry pass pantheon ever since I first thumbed through a book on the Colorado Midland Railroad my grandma had when I was a kid. Looking at it (and I looked at that book pretty much every time we visited— I just had to wash my...

Leadville, 1:30-ish PM: Get some gas, head for the pass. Hagerman, that is.

Next morning, after a fuel tank repair, a wholesome gas-station breakfast, and reconciling myself with a carb that wouldn’t idle, it was Weston Pass to Leadville: Never even locked the hubs, just granny all the way over. Nothing like stump-puller axle gearing to alleviate drama.

Next, the Labor Day trip to the Walden Happy Place, or so I thought. I plotted out an indirect route that would include as many back roads as I could reasonably incorporate in the 3 days I allotted to get there, which meant heading southwest to get to a destination to the northwest of...

Sure, whatever you say. How can you be sure I even own a house, living on the Front Range of Colorado as I do? Good grief.

I'd just as soon we fast-forwarded to the point you're trying to make, if you don't mind. I've had a long week.

I'm guessing this will more closely resemble in execution GM's watered-down Blazer than the "tough old IH Scout".

We used to every summer, right out of the Roaring Fork River. Grab the old galvanized buckets, walk down to the river at one particular deep spot, and Grandpa would carefully dip the buckets full as he could because he was strong enough to. Then we’d each carry a bucket back to the cabin, being...

It was. No breakdowns at all, just the morning ritual of topping off the t-case with oil. The fuel bill was immense, however. How immense I purposely do not know, being a "what's-inside-a-hot-dog" subject. I do know I paid over $6/gallon at Old Faithful.

Then I found what I hoped was the source of all the oil that leaks out of the transfer case: So I ran a bead of Permatex around it: I think it might have improved the situation a bit. Hard to tell with all the leakage from the front output shaft seal: Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I had to finish off a range installation at my BIL’s little mountain place in Rollinsville, needed some butcher block for a small countertop: and used the remainder for a new more functional sink cover in the Alaskan. That’s the old laminate sink cover on the left. Single purpose...

37A seems too little to keep 3 batteries charged, so I bought a new 100A 12si alternator: After I got it clocked correctly, I set about installing it. That should be the easy part in my experience, but it wasn’t, because of where it goes: The upper bolt was almost impossible to get...

After I got home, I addressed some deficiencies, the first of which was replacing this: A trip through Yellowstone in the summer without a working horn is insanity, so I rectified it with this: Bugs were also a problem, so I finally installed my washer bottle: It’s amazing how...

Wind River Canyon, WY on the way home:

Nice place, that VRBO: Big river in the background. We missed the flood by a week. A shot from the wedding venue: A shot obtained online OF the venue a week later: The reception tent is bright white at the far left, my pic was taken at the last riverside bush to the right.

Then, a trip to Paradise Valley, MT, for a wedding. Medicine Bow, WY (stopped early from post-preparation exhaustion): Fremont Canyon, WY: West of Alcova, WY: More: And my goal: a burger & beer at the Old Saloon in Emigrant: Nice camp site, too: I ended turning it down...

Thanks for the kudos! "Keep it going..." In the upcoming posts, you'll see how ironic and foreshadowing that statement truly is.