Montrose to Glenwood Springs via Uncompahgre Plateau & CO-141
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The
Uncompahgre Plateau has been a curiosity. Today will be the day to
visit a good section of it - the main road and some side trail. Coming
off the plateau, CO-141 offers some wonderful red-rock valley scenery -
always a nice section of the state to visit. |
| Much of the Plateau was on a main forest road. The single "bump out" was a trail set. |
| Tom |
| Looking south towards Telluride Colo |
| Heading out on two trails |
| Limb trim |
| Saw choices |
| 520 Long Creek |
| Back out to the main forest roads |
| Looking west to the San Juan mountains. About the same distance past the mountains is Moab Utah |
| Southwest - nice green tree cover |
| Open grazing |
| Our
group split - some heading out / back earlier via a northeast route.
Ken and I with Bryan and Colin will trek west down to CO-141 - a
favorite area of mine. |
| Panorama (Click for a larger size) |
| Traveling through different tree areas |
| Panorama (Click for a larger size) |
| Odd to see an For Sale sign "in the middle of nowhere". |
| Working our way down from the plateau |
| Down to grey gravel from the red soil. |
| Nice look'n day! |
| Coming down to the CO-141 intersection |
| Northbound on 141 - grey rock colors here. |
| Before long we're to the red rocks |
| Pull over for a sandwich. |
| Moving north to Gateway Colo |
| The valley starts to widen. |
| The Palisade |
| Coming into Gateway Colo |
| Heading east from Gateway to US-50 |
| Jumping onto I-70 eastbound at Grand Junction. Book Cliffs |
