CO 65 (N to S)

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90 slides (including 6 side roads: Debeque Cutoff, Roan Creek Road, CO 330, Buzzard Divide Road, Stevens Gulch Road, and Lands End Road)

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North End of CO 65, I 70 exit (in the deepest part of DeBeque Canyon)
May 29 2020 - 2:41 pm

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Mesa Verde sandstone (rock shaped like feathered warrior head) e.g. Souix Warrior Internet Link
Jan 15 2020 - 4:42 pm

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Warrior shadow becomes a triceratops (appropriate because triceratops roamed Mesa Verda shores)
Jan 15 2020 - 4:42 pm

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Mesa Verde sandstone weathering
Jan 15 2020 - 4:38 pm

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End of Plateau Creek Canyon (left turns ahead on Debque Cutoff and CO 330)
Oct 29 2017 - 2:07 pm

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North on Debeque Cutoff

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Wasatch Formation overlying Mesa Verde sandstones
May 29 2020 - 1:59 pm

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Mesa Verde surface
May 05 2017 - 4:02 pm

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Weathered Wasatch Sandstone
May 05 2017 - 3:47 pm

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Madonna holding baby Jesus in swaddling?
May 05 2017 - 3:46 pm

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Sandstone spires and buttes in the Wasatch Formation
May 05 2017 - 3:24 pm

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Colorful shale weathering of the Wasatch Formation
May 29 2020 - 2:17 pm

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Beach dune cross beds in Mesa Verde sandstone
May 05 2017 - 3:29 pm

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Destination ahead: Roan Plateau and Roan Creek Valley (across the Colorado River)
May 29 2020 - 2:19 pm

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Roan Creek Valley Road (continuation of Debeque Cutoff in Garfield County)

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Deep in the Piceance Basin (source of oil shale and other carbon sources)
May 05 2017 - 4:53 pm

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Roan Creek to the left, Clear Creek to the right
May 05 2017 - 5:02 pm

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Clear Creek Valley (private homes)
May 05 2017 - 5:14 pm

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Riparian spring green
May 05 2017 - 5:22 pm

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Life blood of the west (irrigation ditches)
May 05 2017 - 5:41 pm

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Roan Henge
May 05 2017 - 5:45 pm

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Roan Creek Valley in January
Jan 12 2018 - 12:34 pm

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Roan Henge Mountain
Jan 12 2018 - 12:47 pm

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Plowed road
Jan 12 2018 - 2:10 pm

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Turnaround point
Jan 12 2018 - 1:07 pm

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Herd of wild horses (bronze statues)
Jan 12 2018 - 2:06 pm

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Colorful Wasatch Formation (same age rocks in Bryce Canyon)
May 05 2017 - 5:53 pm

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Cutter (one of many antique farm implements displayed along the road for 200 yards)
May 05 2017 - 6:06 pm

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Short trip up Dry Creek Road for a view of Mt. Logan (8,413')
Jun 30 2019 - 3:21 pm

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West on CO 330 (at the same intersection as Debeque Cutoff)

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Plateau Creek Valley toward Collbran
May 04 2017 - 4:46 pm

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Plateau Creek leading up to Battlement Mesa (glacial outwash terraces form flats on both sides of the creek)
May 04 2017 - 4:41 pm

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Grand Mesa from the Peninsula above Collbran
Apr 13 2017 - 11:41 am

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Elk Mountain (12,061' highest point on Battlement Mesa)
May 04 2017 - 6:57 pm

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Mud Hill Till at Mud Hill Pass (volcanic boulders with no uphill source)
May 04 2017 - 7:24 pm

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South on Buzzard Divide Road (back 3 miles west of the pass)

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Elk Mountain and Battlement Mesa
Jun 04 2017 - 1:54 pm

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Grand Mesa from Buzzard Creek Valley
May 05 2017 - 5:56 pm

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Buzzard Creek
Jun 04 2017 - 2:22 pm

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High country ranch
Oct 29 2017 - 3:56 pm

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Colorado River - Gunnison River divide
Jun 04 2017 - 3:11 pm

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Different scenery beyond the pass
Jun 04 2017 - 3:20 pm

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The West Elk Mountains
Jun 04 2017 - 3:46 pm

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Chair Mountain (12,721')
Jun 04 2017 - 4:16 pm

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Muddy Creek
Oct 29 2017 - 3:42 pm

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Beaver
Oct 29 2017 - 4:59 pm

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Road sign in the middle of nowhere
Oct 29 2017 - 4:42 pm

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Stevens Gulch Road to Paonia

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Elk Mountains (l-r): Capitol Pk (14,130'), Snowmass Mtn (14,017'), Maroon Pks (14,156', 14,014')
Oct 29 2017 - 4:45 pm

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Close up of Capitol Peak (14,130')
Oct 29 2017 - 4:50 pm

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Half moon rising over Marcellina Mountain (11,348') and the West Elk Mountains
Oct 29 2017 - 5:23 pm

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Chair Mountain (12,721') and the Raggeds topped by Raggeds Peak (12,641')
Oct 29 2017 - 4:23 pm

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Mt. Gunnison (12,719' left) and Mt. Lamborn (11,396' right) (south West Elk Mountains)
Jun 04 2017 - 5:46 pm

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Mt. Lamborn at dusk
Oct 29 2017 - 5:49 pm

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Back to CO 65
Oct 08 2017 - 2:52 pm

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Headed up Grand Mesa (next several photos taken in early October)
Oct 08 2017 - 3:06 pm

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Golden aspen and red oaks turning above ~8000' (green still below)
Oct 08 2017 - 3:13 pm

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CO 65 winding through aspen-oak forest
Oct 08 2017 - 3:16 pm

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Vivid autumn colors
Oct 08 2017 - 3:14 pm

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Upper Grand Canyon of the Colorado River (btw Grand and Battlement Mesas and Roan Cliffs)
Oct 08 2017 - 3:15 pm

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Sign at entrance to Grand Mesa National Forest (carbon 'ace-in-the-hole', 2 trillion bbls of oil at $100/bbl)
Apr 13 2017 - 12:12 pm

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Roan Cliffs (Mahagony Zone of the Green River Formation is the first thin black line or layer from the top)
May 29 2020 - 1:21 pm

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Looking downhill: an active, creeping avalanche
May 12 2019 - 7:20 pm

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Looking uphill: narrow road
May 29 2020 - 1:26 pm

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Circles show cars that tumbled off the road (I suspect CDOT leaves them there as reminders, else it happened recently)
May 29 2020 - 1:24 pm

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Chalk Mountain (8,092') beyond Anderson Reservoir #2
May 29 2020 - 1:19 pm

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Battlement Mesa from Grand Mesa
May 29 2020 - 1:21 pm

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Wild iris (named after the Greek messenger goddess of color)
May 29 2020 - 12:49 pm

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Lone house in the woods
May 29 2020 - 1:48 pm

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Last melting snow at the end of May
May 29 2020 - 1:17 pm

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Across the road (water disappears quickly, in a few weeks these 'lakes' will be dry)
May 29 2020 - 1:15 pm

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Two weeks and a year earlier (much more snow) perhaps as every year, rapidly melting in the late May heat
May 12 2019 - 7:17 pm

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Lands End Road closed in mid May
May 12 2019 - 7:16 pm

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Lands End Road open in early October

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Grand Mesa
Oct 08 2017 - 3:56 pm

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Largest flat topped mountain in the world (so they say)
Oct 08 2017 - 4:08 pm

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Book Cliffs and Mt. Garfield in background far below Grand Mesa
Oct 08 2017 - 4:13 pm

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Switchbacks on Lands End Road
Oct 08 2017 - 4:15 pm

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The first switchback after crossing the basalt cliff
Oct 08 2017 - 4:16 pm

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Road view of the cliff
Oct 08 2017 - 4:47 pm

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Looking back
Oct 08 2017 - 5:01 pm

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Back to CO 65 at the top of Grand Mesa
Jan 14 2020 - 10:36 am

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West Elk Mountains
Apr 13 2017 - 1:10 pm

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Uncompahgre Peak (14,321' left) and the San Juan Mountains
May 29 2020 - 12:40 pm

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Thunderstorm over the San Juan Mountains (centered on Mt. Sneffels, 14,157')
May 29 2020 - 12:44 pm

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Coming down the southeast side of Grand Mesa
May 29 2020 - 12:53 pm

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Lush green irrigated desert around Cedaredge
May 12 2019 - 7:00 pm

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Grand Mesa from the southeast (oxidized sulphur in the Mancos Shale is yellow)
May 29 2020 - 12:16 pm

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South end of CO 65, junction with CO 92 (3 miles north of US 50 in Delta)
May 29 2020 - 12:11 pm