Bad weather was coming and we had to get over the Rockies. Jan looked on the map and found that we had to get over Wolf Creek Pass at 10,800 feet, our highest yet. This seemed awfully high and we dreaded a long climb, but as we approached from a high plain from the East, we found that we were already over 8,000 feet, so the climb, although slow wasn’t so bad. It is fairly dry on the west side of the Rockies because of the rain shadow effect, but as we approached the pass it got more & more cloudy until it started to drizzle. Near the top, there was a ski area and patches of snow. On the other side, the road was steep and there were several hair pin turns. The road construction didn’t help either as the truck threw mud at the trailer again.
I had called ahead to the Walmart in Durango to see if they allowed RV overnight parking. They said that there were “No overnight parking signs”, but that they didn’t enforce it and that we would see other RVs parked on the eastern side of the parking lot. When we got there, we didn’t see any other RVs in the lot and there were lots of very explicit and menacing signs on every light pole forbidding overnight parking, so there would be no mistake if someone tried to kick s out. I said to Jan that I didn’t feel welcome there and if they didn’t want our business, we should move on, so we drove on to the Cortez Walmart, which was only another 1 ½ hours away. The Cortez Walmart had a bigger parking lot, other parked RVs, and just a few “No overnight parking signs”. It started raining as we hitched up and there was a thunderstorm with lots of lightning. We were thankful that we had gotten over Wolf Creek Pass when we did because they were getting snow.
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