back into the mountains

head into the West Elks in the continuing moist weather. north and east from Cedaredge via Paonia. stop in a downtown cafe there for some actual caffeine and fresh muffins, a short ramble around town and a stop at the Forest Service office for local advice on where not to go. on through Somerset, a coal mining town, up the North Fork of the Gunnison River passing several other coal mines to Anthracite Creek, and then off south into the National Forest at Coal Creek until arriving at the campsite at the confluence of Robinson Creek and Coal Creek. nobody else around in the rain. plenty of wood, paddocks for the horses, gonna be a wet one. the spring-like weather continues day after day very incongruous with the norm.