After going over Red Mountain Pass (11,075) you come to the small town of Silverton, by this time it had been a long day and we didn’t stop in Silverton at all. I thought picture taking was done for the day but when we reached the top of Molas Pass (10,899) there was a big view area with a restroom. Even though it was pretty dark with all the storm clouds I took a few shots. When you leave Molas Pass you go down just a little and then go over Coal Bank Pass(10,640) and past the ski resort and down into Durango. As we got closer to Durango we broke out of the clouds and it was still sunny, but I sure didn’t care about taking any photos, north of town where I never really venture. I was just ready to get home which is 60 miles east of Durango still.
Here is a Panorama of the pass area it is amazingly beautiful up there, there was a little lake I could see down hill a little ways. I would love to head back up to this point for a day trip on a nice day for photos. It’s about 100 miles or so from home so it could be a leisurely day trip.
