What's up everybody! Welcome back to the Hot Shot blog. We've been out in the backcountry for the last five days, but are now happy to report that we're back to the Yurt, showered, feeling good, and ready to fill everyone in on what we've been up to.The first order of business is to go back a little over a week to our Kiosk installation project. These informational booths are installed at fourteener trailheads all over the state of Colorado. They fill hikers in on what they can expect from the trail, wilderness regulations, and Leave No Trace ethics. It might sound fairly straightforward, but installing these puppies turned out to be a small adventure.
To begin, the parts we were sent to install them didn't really fit. We didn't discover this until we'd driven the 4x4 road (see Truckin' post) up to Half Moon trail head on Mt. Massive near Leadville. That meant making a hardware store run to Buena Vista, some 20+ miles away, where there was a limited supply of the screws we needed. We got enough to finish the kiosks on Mt. Massive, and called it a day.
The following day we drove out to Grays and Torreys and the Chicago Lakes trailhead at Mt. Evans. Llyod, our executive director, was kind enough to clean out a number of Denver area hardware stores of the screws and bolts we needed, and the installation at Grays Peak went smoothly.
The trip up to the Chicago Lakes was pretty exciting, and the inspiration for last week's "Truckin'" post. Basically, it was the first time we've had to lock the front axle and engage the compound low 4x4 gear on the job...pretty fun stuff! We were hoping to follow this road all the way the wilderness boundary where we were installing the Kiosks, but found it washed out a ways from our goal. Undeterred, we carried the sign boards the rest of the way and still had enough time to preview our upcoming project on Mt. Evans.
So when you climb a fourteener, please take the time to read these Kiosks. They're informative and, really, we put some work into those things!
-Hot Shots
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