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Wiffleball Batter
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This is going to be a short trip report but if anyone has questions, feel free to ask.
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Our Facebook camping group, Colorado Teardrops and Tiny Trailer Campers (Colorado Campers for short) had our 2nd annual "Reef Madness" camping trip at Capitol Reef in October (Columbus Day weekend.) Last year we camped in the Fruita
Campground inside the park. While the Fruita Campground is gorgeous, the problem with it is that it is not reservable and it always fills up this time of year. As a result, we had to scrounge what sites we could find and ended up being
scattered all over the place.
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This year, we tried to reserve the group campsite that is just South of the Fruita Campground, but that is reserved by drawing and we didn't draw this weekend. So, instead we decided to go to a National Forest campground nearby. The
Sunglow Campground, just 1 mile North of the town of Bicknell and 19 miles from the Park HQ, was our site. There were two group campsites and we reserved them both. The Sunglow Campground is located in a beautiful red rock canyon and
the road dead ends at the campground, so we pretty much had it to ourselves for most of the weekend.
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We had a good showing, about 7 "camping units" which is to say, 6 small trailers and 1 RTT. I can't remember everybody's name, but then I'm terrible with names anyway!
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We arrived mid afternoon on Thursday the 8th and set up camp, pulling our T@B Clamshell, "Livia", followed shortly by several other campers. The Campground itself is basically a large dirt parking lot but it has some nice group fire
pits with benches around them. The weather was perfect, as it almost always is this time of year, with temps in the 60's and 70's and cooling off into the 40's at night.
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Our T@B Clamshell, "Livia" (before we put the Paha Que shelter up):
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If you're wondering about the "awning" that's actually the window, it pops out like that at an angle. Wife Liz makes the custom "awnings" for each trip we go on. This one was obviously an "autumn" themed one.
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The view from our "front porch":
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To be continued....