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 [...]

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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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