The Ballpark is almost certainly out of the question for the first night, we’d have to be flying to make that happen, ditch the side trails, everyone would be rushed getting through Nucla, we’d be well towards the end of section 2 (there’s only 4 sections to the entire route) and still two full days of riding left.
We must consider a 12:00 noon rendezvous, time to get everything unloaded and secured, what we’re leaving at the parking area secured, and then for a best case scenario, nobody’s running late for any reason, we all manage to move out at 1:00 (which I consider very optimistic for the number of people/rides) we’ll have 5-5-1/2 hours of ride time before we stop to make camp.
It seems more realistic that we would camp at Columbine, or on the Roubideau Jeep trail or between Columbine and the point where we exit the NF onto the road into Nucla….?????
This would be a lot easier if we were together with the map laid out and all looking at it together……which we can do, but not until Saturday night August 28th or Sunday morning before moving to the rendezvous….😎👍