It’s been two+ weeks since my last post and that time has flown by. In the last week the weather here in the Leadville area has improved. What I mean by this is, it’s now noon and the morning was sunny and during the time that has passed as I wrote this post it has gone from snowing to sunny. The pack-in is complete and the base-camp is setup. Pack-in took longer than we expected. As many of you who are in the Rocky Mountain Region know, we have had an extraordinary wet spring. The last two weeks it felt like Monsoon season in the San Juan’s. The days would always be cloudy and threatening from morning. The weather would degrade quickly and by noon it would be either raining or snowing. This meant 1 load Tuesday, 1 load Wednesday and 2 loads on Thursday.
We originally were going to pack-in on Saturday the second of June. This was postponed by the delayed pack-in of the forest services crew up Yale then postponed by weather till we got our first of four loads in Monday the fourth of June. The last load went up long after our base camp tent on Thursday. The camp was all set up by Friday afternoon. The process went well and there were no other major mishaps let a mule (Rory) got sick. The many little things that went on I will not bore you with.
While the weather was rough there were many things that went well. The Leadville rodeo grounds allowed Glen to house his mules in their corrals. This allowed him to stay in town. We had the pleasure of going to a mule packing training with Glen a couple of weeks previous. This helped prepare us for the pack-in.
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