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1 / 52 (I 70)
Feb 28 2017 - 12:18 pm
2 / 52 (I 70)
Feb 26 2017 - 1:25 pm
3 / 52 (US 6)
Battlement Mesa
Jan 07 2019 - 11:38 am
4 / 52 (940 Iowa Ave)
Moon Rise over Grand Mesa
Oct 27 2017 - 3:23 pm
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Sunset in the East
Aug 05 2017 - 8:07 pm
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Clouds mimicing Grand Mesa
Jul 30 2017 - 10:00 am
7 / 52 (CO 65)
Colorful Autumns
Oct 08 2017 - 3:15 pm
8 / 52 (Stone Quarry Road)
Colorful Springs
Apr 09 2019 - 12:52 pm
9 / 52 (US 6)
Pediment levels off Battlement Mesa
Nov 04 2018 - 3:09 pm
10 / 52 (Lands End Road)
Pediment levels off Grand Mesa (basalt gravel caps pediments surrounding Grand and Battlement Mesas)
Oct 08 2017 - 5:12 pm
11 / 52 (CO 92)
Some pediment levels are oxidized almost golden
Apr 13 2017 - 2:45 pm
12 / 52 (Stone Quarry Road)
Huge pediment basalt boulders covered by Colorado River terrace gravels
Jul 20 2017 - 1:49 pm
13 / 52 (Lands End Road)
Grand Mesa is the largest flattop mountain in the world (so the locals say)
Oct 08 2017 - 4:08 pm
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Red Oak Autumn Leaves compliment the Golden Aspen
Oct 08 2017 - 5:11 pm
15 / 52 (CO 65)
West Elk Mountains viewed from Grand Mesa
May 29 2020 - 12:53 pm
16 / 52 (US 50)
Grand Mesa making its own pancake clouds
May 29 2020 - 11:46 am
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Top of Grand Mesa just after the snow melt
May 29 2020 - 1:15 pm
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Ephemeral Lake
May 29 2020 - 1:17 pm
19 / 52 (59 Road)
Abundant slump-filled permanent lakes, note the algal mat (left)
Sep 14 2019 - 11:30 am
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Depth of the algal mat
Sep 14 2019 - 11:33 am
21 / 52 (CO 65)
Spring before the melt
May 12 2019 - 7:17 pm
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Lands End Road Closed
May 12 2019 - 7:16 am
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Stream
Apr 13 2017 - 12:55 pm
24 / 52 (CO 65)
Grand Mesa is a winter playground
Apr 13 2017 - 12:51 pm
25 / 52 (CO 65)
Forest Service Snowed In
Apr 13 2017 - 12:50 pm
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From right: basalt of North Mamm Peak (11, 123'); Doghead Mountain (9,685'); Houston Mountain (10,270') composed of Green River Formation
Feb 26 2017 - 1:26 pm
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Doghead Mountain
Apr 09 2019 - 1:07 pm
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Blankets of blue lupine follow the seasons from low to high
Apr 09 2019 - 2:03 pm
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Headwaters of Plateau Creek, Vega State Park - part way up
May 04 2017 - 4:41 pm
30 / 52 (Beaver Creek Road)
Roan Cliffs bordering the carbon rich Piceance Basins (from the north slope of Battlement Mesa)
Sep 14 2019 - 11:11 am
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Same carbon rich rocks under Grand and Battlement Mesas (shown by fracking platform along Plateau Creek)
May 04 2017 - 4:57 pm
32 / 52 (Four Mile Road)
Basalts flowed down valleys in Mesa Verde hogbacks (continuation of the Grand Hogback?)
May 12 2019 - 2:32 pm
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Several hogback valleys filled with basalt
May 12 2019 - 2:26 pm
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Eight switchbacks on Land End Road
Oct 08 2017 - 4:15 pm
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The first switcheback on the basalt cliff
Oct 08 2017 - 4:16 pm
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Road view of the first switchback
Oct 08 2017 - 4:47 pm
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But the view is gorgeous
Oct 08 2017 - 5:01 pm
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Not bad from the top either
Oct 08 2017 - 3:56 pm
39 / 52 (Stone Quarry Road)
Palominos, perhaps registered along Spring Creek Road off Stone Quarry Road
Apr 09 2019 - 1:05 pm
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Lush irrigated pastures along Plateau Creek
May 04 2017 - 4:46 pm
41 / 52 (Stone Quarry Road)
Wild turkeys everywhere
Jul 20 2017 - 2:34 pm
42 / 52 (940 Iowa Ave)
"The Many Moods of Grand Mesa"
14 photos including photos 4, 5, and 6 were taken out the west window of my apartment in Palisade, CO; eleven photos including this one are all in 2017 to give a feel for the varying moods of Grand Mesa through the year
Jun 20 2017 - 8:01 pm
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Oct 02 2017 - 6:15 pm
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May 16 2017 - 8:09 pm
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May 18 2017 - 7:53 pm
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Jan 23 2017 - 6:36 pm
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Sep 29 2017 - 10:57 am
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Jul 18 2017 - 8:24 pm
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Shadow of Mt. Garfield
May 23 2017 - 8:24 pm
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Feb 13 2018 - 12:31 pm
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May 16 2017 - 8:03 pm
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Jul 27 2017 - 12:00 noon