Road Trip Day Two – Lost Lake

About midway through Kebler Pass we took a side trip a couple miles off the main road to Lost Lake.  There is a gorgeous campground there.  My brother and I were wondering if there were so many campsites there in the early 90’s? (not that there are a lot now)  We used to take our [...]

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Road Trip Day Two – Kebler Pass

Kebler Pass is a dirt pass of about 30 – 35 miles or so that leaves Crested Butte and ends up connecting with highway 133 about 15 miles out of Paonia.  I used to live in Paonia in 92-94 so I have been over this pass before but going the other direction in the fall.  It’s [...]

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Road Trip Day Two – Crested Butte

Just outside of town

The end of the main road at Mt Crested Butte (the ski area) looking back toward the ski area housing development
That is Mt Crested Butte you can’t see the ski area itself from this spot, it is behind that hill.

End of the main road I am not sure where this dirt [...]

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Road Trip Day One – To Lake City

After leaving the falls we quickly reached the top of Spring Creek Pass at the continental divide, elevation 10,898.  Once we crossed the top of that pass the other side was lush forest not the arid and open we had been traveling through.  The thunderstorms started growing and we came upon a couple vehicles stopped [...]

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Road Trip Day One – North Clear Creek Falls

A pull over on the road looking over the same headwater area of the Rip Grande that I photographed from lower elevation.
  As you move further up the pass you come to what is called the most photographed waterfall in Colorado North Clear Creek Falls It is an open high mountain meadow area with [...]

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Road Trip Day One – South Clear Creek Falls

After leaving Creede We start heading up higher on the Silver Thread Scenic Byway.  This piece of road goes between South Fork Colorado and Lake City Colorado and goes over two passes.
This looking out over the headwater area of the Rio Grande River

When we pulled into the Silver Thread campground we found a site and [...]

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Road Trip Day One – Creede

This was Sunday if the fourth of July weekend so it was quiet and we missed all the craziness   Things were quiet in town and we had some homemade fudge and wandered a bit.

Here is a mural in town

All over town the houses and businesses had beautiful flowers  [...]

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Road Trip Day One – Leaving Pagosa

My mom, my brother and I decided to get out of town for a couple days we went over a total of 7 mountain passes in the process LOL  There were afternoon thunderstorms but still some amazing scenery.
Going out the road I found another one of those odd flowers that bloom in the morning and [...]

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Spirit Images In Durango Fireworks

First pic is the original second if the original with the face circles and third is a close up of the face/image
This guy looks kind of sad and and weary finger across his chin got the message later that it was about breathing which was being worked on in an AM mediatation.

same face [...]

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Fireworks In Durango

I decided to try to take some fireworks pics.  I started on the fireworks setting but it didn’t keep the shutter open very long so I switch right away to manual setting and set the exposure to 2 seconds.  As it got darker it was having trouble focusing so I switched over to manual focus [...]

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