Mesa Verde, Durango Jeep & Train with Mark & Diann
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| A Galloping Goose! |
| Heading to Telluride. |
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| Telluride's at the end of the canyon. A few years back was my first visit to town though I arrived via the trails - and came down the mountain with the waterfall. Trip report from 2015 - click Day 3 |
| Downtown Telluride |
| Ahh - more straight lines. The zig-zag of the
Black Bear Pass trail. A trail with some vistual intimidation factor
(read - GREAT VIEWS). It comes into view at left side of the left waterfall - hugging the water just before the first waterfall. |
| The Telluride Powerhouse. Do a search for
additional info. |
| Telluride isn't much of a stop for me today. I
have a goal of traveling a long considered road - the gravel road
between the Paonia Reservoir and Crested Butte (which is another town
I've never visited - though today won't be much of a visit - daylight
is getting long and the road and its scenery is the attraction). |
| Heading west on CO-145 to CO-62 to Ridgeway. |
| A bit happened between the above pic and this
pic of the Blue Mesa Reservoir east of Montrose. On CO-62 out of
Telluride I passed a car with a flat tire on the side of the road. One
of the two people was out, up on the side of the road, cell phone high
in the air trying to get a signal. I turned back - they shreadded a
tire and didn't have the security lock to remove the wheel. I gave'm a
ride to a place a short bit northwest of Montrose. I headed back to
Montrose and headed east towards Gunnison where I'll "take a left"
(north) to Crested Butte and then west again on the gravel road. I have
a goal of camping somewhere along the road (not to happen - PACKED -
for what a passenger car can access). |
| North of Gunnison towards Crested Butte |
| The only "sorta" pic of town |
| Heading west from town - in search of a
campsite. |
| An interesting dam / spillway. |
| Flowing water. With the wire grate you can
stop and watch the water flowing under the car. |
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| Out from County Road 12 from Crested Butte,
heading north along the Paonia Reservoir. Not finding a campsite I
looked at the time and the distance and decided to haul back to Fort
Collins. I should be able to get home about 1am or so. |
| A rare day - heading east on I-70 from
Glenwood Springs - into the Glenwood Canyon, one of the most scenic
stretches of Interstate, there's an eastbound train. |
