The frost-free period is 40 to 60 days. These are the Home Camp soils and the competing Vulcan soils. Vulcan soils have fragmental layers. Home Camp soils have a mollic epipedon, and have a lithic contact at less than 40 inches. These soils are used principally as native pastureland or for forestry and recreational purposes.
Native vegetation is spruce, fir, and a sparse understory of grasses and shrubs.
The series is extensive. Rio Grande County Area, Colorado, 1972. National Soil Survey Lab data is available.