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[Zoomad]

Thanks for the trip reports sir. I would like to take the trail out to the dunes sometime. That time of year with the change looks killer. Maybe I can get the wife to go with.

Russ

You're welcome as I'm happy to share my fun with the folks here.  Medano pass is relatively easy trail that most stock 4wd trucks can do without any issue. You just need to air down for the sand.  The nice thing about the sand is it keeps the masses out.  On the east side of the pass it looks like they took a small bulldozer to the trail and graded it to the point it feels paved so it's very easy now. 

 

Being a National park brings crowds in the spring for the runoff and to see Medano Creek actually flowing at the base of the dunes and in the fall for the leaves changing.  

 

Just outside the actual park boundary there are multiple primitive campsites with bear lockers (it is bear country) that are away from the masses down within the park.  

[Zoomad]

Here's a run-through video of the trail from start to finish.  Sped up for time, but the views are great.  

 

https://youtu.be/VkyjU7lzoQU

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[EDR]

Zoomad,
I just returned from Colorado and missed seeing the Fall colors in the Rockies.
I had heard the dry weather along the front range this year really affected the aspens and other trees color change this year, so thanks for the great video.

[Zoomad]

Zoomad,
I just returned from Colorado and missed seeing the Fall colors in the Rockies.
I had heard the dry weather along the front range this year really affected the aspens and other trees color change this year, so thanks for the great video.

Thanks EDR.  It's been a weird fall around here.  A couple of cold nights and an early snow fall seemed to kill the color change on most of the trees, not just the aspens.  Lucky for us, Medano didn't disappoint. It's much further south than most of the high country outside of Denver or Colorado Springs so it tends to stay warmer later.  We saw high 60's and wind on the pass and up into the 80's down by the dunes.  

 

I finished up on another video from our fun out in Moab at Blazer Bash.  It's covering the Flat Iron Mesa trail up to the point I snapped the axle shaft.  It can be heard quite clearly in the video.  I did manage to hang one front wheel in the air on a climb up and a rear tire off the ground on a decent down a multi-step cliff.  Fun stuff. 

 

https://youtu.be/ZYbuKLvkMiQ

[regdelp]

New member, great thread and info. Recently picked this one up.

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[Zoomad]

New member, great thread and info. Recently picked this one up.

That one looks pretty solid. I remember seeing a yellow 81 or 82 K5 with a fwc on Craigslist out of Wyoming earlier this year. Total barn find, with barn mice inside. It was really dirty but looked really complete. Like dirty enough it needed a bleach bath to kill all the hanta virus from the mice.

[Zoomad]

That's the one.  No mistaking it.  Not many low mileage Yellow K5's with one of these campers on it.  I went back through my saved pics from the craigslist ad and can say that is the one.  Right down to the full hubcaps and bug deflector.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[regdelp]

Yep, that’s her. Thanks for the added pics. Full restoration is the goal so I may hit you up for technical advice as I move along. If that’s ok.

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[Zoomad]

Well it looks like it cleaned up really well so far.  Did you buy it that way or like it was in the pics I found?

 

Good score.   If I can help in anyway, just let me know.