The final campground we stayed at was the Whitestar campground near Twin Lakes. It was unlike any of the other campgrounds and almost looked desert-like. We ended the night with our last campfire and s'mores.
And I'll end with a picture of Wylie...looking quite ready to go home.
I'm running out of steam with all these posts. I've probably blogged more about this trip than I did all of last year! But hopefully you find the pictures entertaining:)
Our second to last stop was the Collegiate Peaks campground, but to get there we had quite a drive. First we had to drive around the Taylor Reservoir, which was very close to Harmel's. The whole time I kept asking Bryan "Have you been here before?" After the millionth time of me questioning him, he snapped back "Stop asking me that. YES...I've been here before!" Haha. It was just hard to imagine how he was able to spend an entire summer out there, and I barely even remember hearing one single thing about the beautiful scenery. So below is the beautiful view from the Taylor Reservoir.
The next part of the drive was the Cottonwood pass. Lots of winding switchbacks and again...beautiful views! Here's Gary snapping up some of the mountain views. Owen is almost camouflaged in the picture. Can you find him??
Wylie was reunited with his all-time favorite thing...SNOW!
Here's Bryan at the top of the pass, sending some water to both oceans. Or something like that.
Made it to Collegiate Peaks to set up camp. I will confess...I barely left the camper that night. Too much rain and Judy and I became addicted to bananagrams:)
It was a nicely wooded campground with a roaring river and wildlife. Bryan claimed "Picture of the Year" with this shot. Not bad...
And then we took their picture in Crested Butte.
Bryan and Gary spent the morning fly fishing along the Taylor River. Judy and I hung back and enjoyed the Keurig coffee. Gotta love electricity!
We took a short hike that afternoon to checkout the river. Wylie took the opportunity to take his first swim in river. This freaked Judy (and me too) out a lot when Wylie would chase a stick in the current. There were several times we thought he might get swept away. He still managed to have fun though!
And we posed for a family picture:)
Then it RAINED. But it was quite pleasant to have a REAL roof over our heads!
After the rain cleared, there was a eerie mist hanging over the red rock.
During the downpour, Gary braved the elements to cook us up some steaks. Delicious!
On the second day camping, the guys decided it was the perfect day to do our overnight back packing trip to the Savage Lakes. Nothing like getting thrown into this whole camping thing. At least this time I didn't leave home with out my peanut butter! 
Wylie was happy during the hike up to the lakes. Nothing like snow in July!
We soon realized that all that SNOW would prevent us from making it to the lakes, since the trail was impossible to find. Fellow hikers mentioned that the snow at the lakes was 5 feet deep in some places and would be impossible to camp. So sadly (or happily for some!) we decided to head back down and call it a good effort. I really was actually kind of bummed I didn't get to experience the overnight camping part of the trip, but some what happy I didn't have to deal with the whole bathroom thing. I'm such a girl:)
