DutchVDub
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Milliken, CO
Anybody else looking to camp/wheel that weekend? Had some stuff come up and now I’m freed up that weekend.
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Memorial Day Weekend??
- Thread starter DutchVDub
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xj-grin
NAXJA Member #1096
- Location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
We're toying with it... were going to try and hit Medano Pass, but our group is dissolving. Our main goal is to avoid crowds, idiots and two strokes. I'm old.
DutchVDub
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Milliken, CO
Never heard of Medano Pass. I could be interested. I too want to avoid crowds.
xj-grin
NAXJA Member #1096
- Location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
East entrance to Great Sand Dunes -- there are a bunch of primative sites just outside of the park available 1st come 1st serve, but on a holiday weekend they will likely be gobbled up on Thus. night. Medano Creek hits the sand dunes and starts to have wave action as the sand holds it back, and then releases... Like hanging out on the beach, but in the Sangres.
DutchVDub
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Milliken, CO
Sounds cool
xj-grin
NAXJA Member #1096
- Location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
It is. i just haven't figured out how I'm getting down there to pitch some tents and squat on a site... my guess is I'm not. It may or may not be open anyway, as snow currently has the last mile or so to the Park locked up:
https://www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/medano-pass-road.htm#Current
https://www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/medano-pass-road.htm#Current
DutchVDub
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Milliken, CO
Website said some of it is open. Send one of your teenagers down there to hold us a site. 
sixditchoffroad
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Denver, Colorado
Definitely down.
4x4JeePmaNthINg
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Colorado
Does Medano run parallel with the front range? I know there's a road by the dunes I never tried, and there's a fairly long road up there with lots of old fire lookouts.
xj-grin
NAXJA Member #1096
- Location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
more or less from east to west from the Walsenburg side over the Sangres dropping down into the dunes.
- Location
- Denver, CO
I think the wife and I are going to be in one or two of those days!!
- Location
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
Spring creek 26th at 0830.
Dutch and I will be expediently running and then spending some quality time at tommyknockers
Dutch and I will be expediently running and then spending some quality time at tommyknockers
- Location
- Denver, CO
Hmm this might work - how long do you suspect it will take? The wife and I are going to the Rockies game that afternoon but would like to still make it.
- Location
- Golden, CO
Meet-up spot?
Some guys ran it 18th (pre snow that evening) and got turned around at rock garden due to heavy snow amounts
Some guys just tried Medano and it’s still closed in (5-19), they had to take other routes around.
4x4JeePmaNthINg
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Colorado
I got a friend headed up tomorrow, it's calling for 1-3" currently.
DutchVDub
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Milliken, CO
Yeah, there is supposed to be another storm coming around Memorial Day weekend too. All the FSR's are still closed in the Arap/Roos Forests, as per looking it up on the website for each district this morning.
