The Reunion Cabin

 Our cabin this year was quite different from last year, when we all three of us had cabin in the old section of the camp. This year ours is located outside the original camp, up above the camp the flank of the mountain, among the network of gravel roads where there are also many private cabins, and groups of camp cabins built among them.. 

Ours turns out to be brand new cabin, built in 2020, donated to the camp by a couple from Kansas, and located on the crest of a small rise allowing a view out both directions, towards the Trail Ridge to the north from the bedroom, and towards Teddy's Teeth to the south from the front porch. 

It was a magnificent week. I went hiking every day in the morning, using the networks of trails that that connect around the camp property, that follow the creeks, and allow one to directly access Rocky Mountain National Park in at least six different places.

I love the sound of rushing water. I love to sit and hear it coming down on the rocks and feel that air currents that are carried with it. 

J did the cooking. We ate very well. 

Big thing this year was the bears. Lots of bear activity, according to the signs posted in the parking lot of the main lodge, and also on notices on the refrigerator in the cabin. We were warned to take precaution. We neither saw nor heard any bear evidence during the week.

The private cabins around Sunflower were scenic in their own rustic ways. I wondered who lived in them. I was glad there were still many private cabins on the mountain, above the camp.

 Just above us along the dead end gravel road going uphill was another camp cabin, a big five-bedroom reunion cabin, as they call it, with its own parking lot. It's quite a spiffy mountain lodge. It was occupied when we moved in,. The people came and went in multiple cars, and played horseshoes int the horseshoe pit across the gravel road from our cabin.

Those folks moved out in mid week and it was quiet after that. The cleaning crew came and went but no one moved in. One late afternoon in the last part of the week I walked up and sat outside of the empty reunion empty in one of the big wooden chairs that are like the ones that are normally in the main lodge. It was a beautiful view through the shelter of the screen of the pines there with the sunlight coming through the trees, and a peek at nearby cabins on the next road over.