Chambers Lake Campground WOW!

Monday Wow! We hit the jackot on campgrounds. National Forest Service Chambers Lake campground (a Colorado top 100) is situated on a pine covered pennisula jutting out into the small mountain lake. The campground hosts seem to take great pride in keeping this place clean. Even the vault toilets smell clean. No electricity here but this is a place anyone would enjoy for a week. Getting here Monday was a very short trip just over a continental divide pass from west to east. Explored some local towns along the Cache La Poudre (pronounced poo-dee) River. Bought some $3/gal gas. A lot of relaxing and reading around the campsite. Thank goodness for DEET when there is no breeze. A couple of small hikes planned Tuesday; then east towards Fort Collins looking for Internet, cell service, and a state park that has showers and a laundry.

Sunday nite we stayed at a state park that has been devistated by PMB (pine mountain beetle). Almost all of the trees in that campground had been cut down. Pretty ugly, but we had already paid. Thus our happiness with Chambers Lake where the NFS had been spraying to save the campground from the PMB epidemic.