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Colorado State Road 69
19 photos most of the Sangre de Cristo Range (Spanish for 'Blood of Christ' for its red pre-Cambrian quartite rocks)

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CO 69
SE end of CO 69 (I 25 one mile north of Walsenburg)

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Mileage Sign
Road sign with clouds
Nov 27 2020 - 10:40 am
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Clearing
Quickly clearing Greenhorn Mountain (12,347') south end of the Wet Mountains commonly confused with Pikes Peak next peak north on I 25
Nov 27 2020 - 10:46 am
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9 14ers in Sangres
Nine 14er's of Sangre de Cristo Range (Little Bear Pk, Blanca Pk, Ellingwood Pt, Mt Lindsey, Crestone Pk, Crestone Needles, Challeger Pt, Kit Carson Pk, and Humbolt Pk)
Nov 27 2020 - 10:54 am
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Spanish Peak
Spanish Peaks - East Peak (12,683', left) and West Peak (12,626, right)
Nov 27 2020 - 11:15 am
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Blanca Peak Group
From left - Little Bear Peak (14,037'), Blanca Peak (14,345'), Englewood Point (14,042'), Mt. Lindsey (14,042'), California Peak (13,849')
Nov 27 2020 - 11:24 am
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Zapata Ridge
Zapata Ridge (12,298')
Nov 27 2020 - 11:29 am
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Telephoto Zapata Ridge
Telephoto Nov 27 2020 - 11:30 am
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Sangre de Cristo Range
Central Sangre de Cristo Range from Carbonate Mountain (12,308') to Humbolt Peak (14,064')
Nov 27 2020 - 11:35 am
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Buzzardine Peak
Buzzardine Peak (11,910') and Blueberry Peak (12,005')
Nov 27 2020 - 11:39 am
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Sangre de Cristo Range
I can't get enough of this morning's view of the Sangres
Nov 27 2020 - 11:41 am
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Promontory Divide
Divide between Huerfano River and Texas Creek (Pikes Peak 14,110' in background)
Nov 27 2020 - 11:42 am
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Central Sangres
Texas Creek headwaters similar to Huerfano River headwaters (both in structural trough between Wet Mountains and Sangres)
Nov 27 2020 - 11:55 am
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Westcliffe, CO
Westcliffe
Nov 27 2020 - 12:03 pm
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Sawatch Range
Southern Sawatch Range Mt. Shavano (14,229'), Tabeguache Peak (14,155'), Mt. Antero (14,269')
Nov 27 2020 - 12:18 pm
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Wet Mountains
Wet Mountains (similar granite at Greenhorn Mountain)
Nov 27 2020 - 12:24 pm
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South Park Uplift
South Park across the Arkansas River Canyon
Nov 27 2020 - 12:31 am
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Texas Creek
Texas Creek Canyon
Nov 27 2020 - 12:32 pm
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Texas Creek Canyon
End of the Canyon
Nov 27 2020 - 12:35 pm
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CO 69
NW end of CO 69 (US 50 at Texas Creek)
Nov 27 2020 - 12:36 pm