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mtnmayhem
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I live in Colorado and I went with a few friends on an "annual" camping trip to a little known lake near Steamboat Springs. We get everything packed and leave the campsite. Well, unknown to us, between the time that we arrived at the lake and the time we left, the forest service cut down about five enormous dead trees and laid them right across the road blocking us in. The road is a narrow 4X4 trail that is somewhat hard to maneuver if you had to turn around. So I busted a CV axle trying to turn around - this was just bad luck and timing. Now not only are we blocked in but my car is immobile as the front wheel with the broken axle is locked up. Oh yeah, no cell phone service.
So we start walking. After a long long walk we catch up to a forest service truck. They radio in to get us a tow truck and then they had to undo their previous work by removing the gigantic trees in the road. I am then informed that the area we were camping in was CLOSED TO MOTOR VEHICLES!! This is a spot I have been camping in for eight years straight and has never been closed and we were literally only 100 or so yards past the "road closed" sticker which was about 3 inches by 3 inches. The sticker was on one of those flimsy forest service markers that stick out of the ground and it had been run over by some other idiot so you couldn't even see the damn thing unless you got out of car. Not saying I was screwed over or anything as it WAS posted and none of us saw it going in. So I had to pay $220 to get towed and it will cost me another couple hundred to fix the axle. Then the icing on the cake - A ticket from the Yampa Ranger District comes in the mail for $75 bucks.
Disclaimer - I am not complaining! I just had a bad time camping and I will now look under rocks for road closed signs. Go broncos.
So we start walking. After a long long walk we catch up to a forest service truck. They radio in to get us a tow truck and then they had to undo their previous work by removing the gigantic trees in the road. I am then informed that the area we were camping in was CLOSED TO MOTOR VEHICLES!! This is a spot I have been camping in for eight years straight and has never been closed and we were literally only 100 or so yards past the "road closed" sticker which was about 3 inches by 3 inches. The sticker was on one of those flimsy forest service markers that stick out of the ground and it had been run over by some other idiot so you couldn't even see the damn thing unless you got out of car. Not saying I was screwed over or anything as it WAS posted and none of us saw it going in. So I had to pay $220 to get towed and it will cost me another couple hundred to fix the axle. Then the icing on the cake - A ticket from the Yampa Ranger District comes in the mail for $75 bucks.
Disclaimer - I am not complaining! I just had a bad time camping and I will now look under rocks for road closed signs. Go broncos.