58 Slides
Up and over the San Juan Mountains

North end, US 50 at bridge over the Gunnison River at the end of Blue Mesa Reservoir
Nov 05 2020 - 12:34 pm

Blue Mesa Reservior (low in November after the irrigation season and before the spring snow melt)
Nov 05 2020 - 12:35 pm

San Luis Peak (14,074')
Nov 05 2020 - 12:47 pm

Volcanic Plateau ~8,500'
Nov 05 2020 - 12:52 pm

La Garita Mountains from left: Baldy Chato (13,401'), Stewart Peak (13,983'), Baldy Allo (13,698'), San Luis Peak (14,074')
Nov 05 2020 - 12:55 pm

Mountain Ranch
Nov 05 2020 - 12:58 pm

CO 149 - Silver Thread Scenic Byway
Nov 05 2020 - 3:54 pm

Cebolla Creek Valley
Nov 05 2020 - 1:00 pm

Telephoto
Nov 05 2020 - 1:01 pm

Coming down from the High Volcanic Plateau to the Lake Fork Valley
Nov 05 2020 - 1:09 pm

Notorious Cannibalism
Nov 05 2020 - 1:13 pm

Lake Fork Valley cutting into ashflow deposits from ~30,000,000 yr old volcanoes
Nov 05 2020 - 1:18 pm

Downstream view of the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River
Nov 05 2020 - 1:25 pm

Chapel apparently built for one gravestone
Nov 05 2020 - 1:33 pm

Soft ash deposits interbedded with the hard ashflows
Nov 05 2020 - 1:35 pm

Road sign about the Lake Fork
Nov 05 2020 - 1:39 pm

Upstream view of the river
Nov 05 2020 - 1:39 pm

Lake City
Nov 05 2020 - 1:51 pm

View from the city
Nov 05 2020 - 1:52 pm

Quaint houses in Lake City
Nov 05 2020 - 1:58 pm

Fish hatcheries on the Lake Fork
Nov 05 2020 - 2:02 pm

Volcanoes built the San Juans (eruptions occur every 100,000 years or so)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:06 pm

Glaciers eroded the mountains (in about the same 100,000 year cycle)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:09 pm

Uncompahgre Peak (14,309') (through three miles of endless trees along the road blocking spectacular the view)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:15 pm

Road sign about the Slumgullion Earth Flow
Nov 05 2020 - 2:18 pm

Vertical trees indicate stabilized earth flow
Nov 05 2020 - 2:18 pm

Breakaway scarp (areal view shows photo perspective)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:19 pm

Recommended (200 yards up a paved road to a broad parking lot)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:36 pm

Why recommended? (finally a view not obstructed by trees)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:32 pm

From Left: Sunshine Mountain (13,321'), Wetterhorn Peak(14,015'), Matterhorn Peak (13,590'), Broken Hill (13,526'), Uncompaghge Peak (14,309')
Nov 05 2020 - 2:31 pm

Sunshine Peak (14,001'), Red Cloud Peak (14,034') hiding in trees at right
Nov 05 2020 - 2:28 pm

Lake Fork Valley surmounted by four 14er's from left (Sunshine, Red Cloud, Wetterhorn, Uncompahgre Peaks)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:31 pm

Uncompahgre Group through a beetle-kill spruce forest
Nov 05 2020 - 2:39 pm

La Garita Mountains, Cinco Baldy (13,383') right
Nov 05 2020 - 2:28 pm

Hot Ash Flow Deposits from the La Garita Caldera about 10 miles away
Nov 05 2020 - 2:44 pm

Logging spruce trees killed by the beetle outbreak
Nov 05 2020 - 2:46 pm

High Valley beneath azure Colorado sky
Nov 05 2020 - 2:50 pm

Colorado River to the west; Rio Grande to the east
Nov 05 2020 - 2:54 pm

Beetle kill
Nov 05 2020 - 3:00 pm

Beetle kill road sign
Nov 05 2020 - 2:59 pm

Headwaters of the Rio Grande
Nov 05 2020 - 3:05 pm

Looking ahead to the Creede Caldera
Nov 05 2020 - 2:56 pm

Rio Grande Pyramid (13,821')at the head of the Rio Grande Valley
Nov 05 2020 - 3:09 pm

Bristol Head (12,706')
Nov 05 2020 - 3:11 pm

La Garita Mountains
Nov 05 2020 - 3:19 pm

Approaching Antelope Valley
Nov 05 2020 - 3:23 pm

Resurgent Dome of the Creed Caldera (La Garita Mountains in background are caldera rim)
Nov 05 2020 - 3:27 pm

Rio Grande
Nov 05 2020 - 3:26 pm

Glacial terminal moraines below Bristol Head
Jul 24 2018 - 2:15 pm

Rio Grande terraces just downstream from moraines
Jul 24 2018 - 2:35 pm

Creede
Jul 24 2018 - 1:26 pm

Main Street
Jul 24 2018 - 1:26 pm

Entering Rio Grande Canyon (through the caldera wall)
Nov 05 2020 - 3:58 pm

Volcanic weathering
Nov 05 2020 - 4:02 pm

Rio Grande Palisades
Nov 05 2020 - 4:07 pm

Coming into South Fork (town and river)
Nov 05 2020 - 4:11 pm

South end of CO 149
US 160 at South Fork