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77 slides including 3 side roads (Flat Tops Scenic Byway, Trappers Lake Road, and Rifle Creek Roads)
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North end of CO 13, Baggs, WY exit, I 80 WY 789 extends CO 13 to I 80 in Wyoming
(image copied from Google Images: WY 789)
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Continental divide (top of North America, the Great Wyoming Basin)
Jan 09 2017 - 12:16 pm
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Whiteout! (5 MPH and guides are barely visible on each side of the road)
Jan 09 2017 - 12:22 pm
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Clearing
Jan 09 2017 - 12:06 pm
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Devils Gate just across the border in Wyoming
Jul 12 2017 - 5:33 pm
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Jul 12 2017 - 5:41 pm
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BLM Sign
Jul 12 2017 - 5:37 pm
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Fortification Rocks in Colorado
Jan 09 2017 - 11:10 am
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A volcanic dike
Jul 12 2017 - 3:11 pm
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Moffat County Colorado Welcome Sign
Jul 12 2017 - 3:07 pm
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Volcanic dike head on
Jul 12 2017 - 3:09 pm
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Telephoto
Jul 12 2017 - 3:09 pm
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Coal Country
Jan 09 2017 - 10:38 am
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In May
May 20 2020 - 3:53 pm
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Yampa River flowing through the Mesa Verde Formation (source of coal)
May 20 2020 - 4:00 pm
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House in Williams Fork Mountains (Mesa Verde Formation called the Williams Fork Formation here and to the northeast)
May 20 2020 - 4:09 pm
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Freshly shorn sheep catching the maximum shade
May 13 2017 - 1:20 pm
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This Must Be The Place
May 20 2020 - 4:10 pm
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Long view
May 20 2020 - 4:26 pm
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Mesa Verde capped hill (from top: Mesa Verde Sandstone, Mancos Shale, Dakota Sandstone, Morrsion Shale, and silt covered Entrada Sandstone bench)
May 20 2020 - 4:31 pm
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Flat Tops from the northwest
May 20 2020 - 4:36 pm
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Pond where Good Springs Creek meets Mill Creek
May 20 2020 - 4:39 pm
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Coal mine tailings filling a side canyon 150' deep, 1500' back
May 20 2020 - 4:48 pm
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Danforth Hills (Mesa Verde Formation)
May 20 2020 - 5:23 pm
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Approaching Meeker
May 20 2020 - 5:33 pm
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Danforth Hills from the south
May 20 2020 - 5:35 pm
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White River at north end of the Grand Hogback
May 20 2020 - 6:12 pm
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Flat Tops from the west
May 20 2020 - 6:14 pm
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East just before Meeker
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Flat Tops Trails Scenic Byway
May 20 2020 - 6:07 pm
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White River swollen by spring runoff
May 20 2020 - 6:01 pm
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Blue water reflecting azure Colorado sky
May 20 2020 - 6:00 pm
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Pennslvanian sandstone (tilted along west limb of the Flat Tops anticline)
May 20 2020 - 5:47 pm
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White River irrigated ranch land
May 20 2020 - 5:47 pm
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Flat Tops (the name is obvious)
May 20 2020 - 5:43 pm
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Up river toward The Flat Tops source area
May 20 2020 - 5:41 pm
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White River where it splits into North and South Forks
May 20 2020 - 5:39 pm
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Riparian vegetation
Aug 20 2017 - 12:35 pm
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Palace
Aug 20 2017 - 2:59 pm
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South on Trappers Lake Road
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Big Fish Fire in 2002 (Beaver lodge and partially drained beaver pond in foreground)
Aug 20 2017 - 12:36 pm
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Green areas show recovery
Aug 20 2017 - 2:10 pm
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Trees fell several years after the fire (dead roots could no longer withstand the wind)
Aug 20 2017 - 12:54 pm
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Trappers Lake set a Wilderness precedent (1919 homeowner applications not approved; no roads allowed)
Aug 20 2017 - 1:54 pm
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Trapper Lake and the Chinese Wall
Aug 20 2017 - 1:18 pm
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Recovery is on track with the Yellowstone fires of 1988
Aug 20 2017 - 1:17 pm
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Algae fronds in North Fork White River from bridge over Trappers Lake outlet
Aug 20 2017 - 1:27 pm
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The other way, toward the lake
Aug 20 2017 - 1:28 pm
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Trappers Lake from the outlet
Aug 20 2017 - 1:28 pm
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Back to CO 13 south of Meeker (Grand Hogback from north) CO 13 follows the Grand Hogback all the way to Rifle
Jul 12 2017 - 1:24 pm
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Spires of Mesa Verde sandstone
May 20 2020 - 6:21 pm
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Another View
May 13 2017 - 2:51 pm
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The Roan Cliffs west of the Grand Hogback (on the right all the way to Rifle)
May 20 2020 - 6:42 pm
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Stacked anvil clouds
May 20 2020 - 6:48 pm
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Construction season
May 20 2020 - 6:57 pm
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A quick peek at Chair Mountain and the Raggeds (West Elk Mountains)
May 20 2020 - 7:18 pm
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Erosion of the Wasatch Formation in noon light
Jul 20 2017 - 12:42 pm
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Evening light
May 20 2020 - 7:19 pm
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North on CO 135 (to State Parks and county roads)
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Rifle Gap through the Grand Hogback
May 13 2017 - 1:28 pm
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The Grand Hogback from the east
May 13 2017 - 1:30 pm
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Roan Cliffs beyond Rifle Gap
May 13 2017 - 1:34 pm
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Dead Cottonwood tree
May 13 2017 - 1:37 pm
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Paleozoic limestone (a favorite spot for training technical mountain-climbers)
May 13 2017 - 1:54 pm
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East Rifle Creek
May 13 2017 - 2:13 pm
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Cliff and tree silhouetted by storm clouds
May 13 2017 - 2:16 pm
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Rifle Gap Reservoir
May 13 2017 - 2:42 pm
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Rifle Gap through tilted Mesa Verde Formation (i.e the Grand Hogback)
May 13 2017 - 2:43 pm
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Battlement Mesa beyond Rifle Gap
May 13 2017 - 2:49 pm
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Back to CO 13 approaching Rifle and the Colorado River
May 05 2020 - 7:23 pm
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Labeled geology (Wasatch Formation is as colorful as same-aged rocks in Bryce Canyon)
Mar 18 2017 - 12:31 pm
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House with beautiful backyard
Mar 18 2017 - 12:33 pm
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Ranches along Rifle Creek
May 13 2017 - 3:07 pm
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Light green pediment surfaces below Battlement Mesa
May 05 2020 - 7:35 pm
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Houston Mountain (10,270')
May 05 2020 - 7:38 pm
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South end of CO 13, Rifle exit, I 70
May 26 2020 - 7:19 pm