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![Colorado State Road 12](../../images/roads/co012-01.jpg)
26 slides
up the Purgatorie River then around the Spanish Peaks
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![Colorado State Road 12](../../images/roads/co012-02.jpg)
CO 12 is west extension of CO 10
at I-25
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![Highway of Legends](../../images/roads/co012-03.JPG)
Highway of Legends Scenic Byway
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![Coal Deposits](../../images/roads/co012-04.JPG)
Trinidad coal country (Mesa Verde Formation)
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![Cloudy Weather](../../images/roads/co012-05.JPG)
Clouds covering the Sangre de Cristos in southernmost Colorado
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![Sangre de Cristo Range](../../images/roads/co012-06.JPG)
Clear view
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![Cucharas Peak](../../images/roads/co012-07.JPG)
Cucharas Peak (14,047' right)
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![Red Mountain](../../images/roads/co012-08.JPG)
Red Mountain (13,908')
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![Purgartorie River](../../images/roads/co012-09.JPG)
Purgatorie River
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![Miranda Peak](../../images/roads/co012-10.JPG)
Miranda Peak (13,468')
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![Miranda Peak](../../images/roads/co012-11.JPG)
Telephoto
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![Miranda Peak](../../images/roads/co012-12.JPG)
Closer
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![CO 12](../../images/roads/co012-13.JPG)
Lots of road views of the Sangre de Cristo Range
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![Dakota Hogback](../../images/roads/co012-14.JPG)
Dakota Sandstone hogback flanking Cucharas Peak (14,047')
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![Ranch](../../images/roads/co012-15.JPG)
Mountain ranch
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![Dakota Hogback](../../images/roads/co012-16.JPG)
Side view of the hogback
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![Cucharas Pass](../../images/roads/co012-17.JPG)
Cucharas Pass
between Purgatorie and Cucharas rivers, both tributaries to the Arkansas, Cucharas via the Huerfano
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![West Spanish Peak](../../images/roads/co012-18.JPG)
West Spanish Peak (13,626')
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![West Spanish Peak](../../images/roads/co012-19.JPG)
From the west
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![Volcanic Feeder Dikes](../../images/roads/co012-20.JPG)
Feeder dikes from the Spanish Peaks intrusive volcanoes
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![Sangre de Cristos](../../images/roads/co012-21.JPG)
Last look at the Sangres before clouds set in
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![Weathering](../../images/roads/co012-22.JPG)
Strange rocks
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![Feeder Dike](../../images/roads/co012-23.JPG)
Feeder dike
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![East Spanish Peak](../../images/roads/co012-24.JPG)
East Spanish Peak (12,683') above the clouds
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![Great Plains](../../images/roads/co012-25.JPG)
Cloudy over the Great Plains
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![Colorado State Road 12](../../images/roads/co012-26.jpg)
North end of CO 12 (10 miles west of Walsenburg)