CO 131 Slide Show (S to N)

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64 slides - 4 side roads: Through Road, Colorado River Road, Coffee Pot Road, and CO 134
mostly of Elk Mountains and Sawatch Range from Flat Tops, Gore Range, Colorado River

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South end of CO 131, I 70 Wolcott Exit
May 20 2020 - 10:06 am

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Mancos Shale cliffs along the Eagle River
May 20 2020 - 10:08 am

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Looking down on I 70 west
May 20 2020 - 10:12 am

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Ranch nestled in the Mancos Shale
May 20 2020 - 10:13 am

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North on CO 131
May 08 2020 - 4:22 pm

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Looking south at the Sawatch Range (Gold Dust Peak 13,365' left)
May 20 2020 - 10:22 pm

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State Bridge over the Colorado River
May 08 2020 - 3:35 am

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Store at State Bridge (beginning of Through Road) I always buy a cold pop there
May 08 2020 - 3:36 pm

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Through Road to Kremmling

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Colorado River flowing out of Gore Canyon
Sep 29 2011 - 2:03 pm

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Strange Granite Rocks
Jul 13 2017 - 12:34 pm

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Gore Canyon and the Colorado River
Jul 13 2017 - 12:41 pm

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Granite core of the Gore Range
Jul 13 2017 - 2:48 pm

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Typical Gore Range near Kremmling
Jul 13 2017 - 1:14 pm

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Military Train
Jul 13 2017 - 1:51 pm

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Back to CO 131 north: About 6 miles north of State Bridge turn left at McCoy
May 08 2020 - 3:55 pm

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Colorado River Road

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Colorado River Road
May 08 2020 - 3:00 pm

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Rafters
May 08 2020 - 2:51 pm

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Colorful Permian Rocks (framed by the Colorado River Ranch gate)
May 08 2020 - 2:08 pm

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Dakota Sandstone Surface leading up to the Flat Tops
May 08 2020 - 2:42 pm

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Derby Peak (12,186 left) and Flat Top Mountain (12,354 right)
May 08 2020 - 2:42 pm

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Blue Colorado River and Red Triassic Rocks
May 08 2020 - 2:14 pm

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Colorful Permain Rocks, Again (we've been following east limb of the Flat Tops anticline)
May 08 2020 - 2:10 pm

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Stand Up Rafters
May 08 2020 - 1:58 pm

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Coffee Pot Road, the only road up onto the Flat Tops

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Limestone spire at the switchback
May 08 2020 - 1:39 pm

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Looking down on I 70 and the Eagle River Valley(Sawatch Range in background)
May 08 2020 - 10:45 am

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Ranch gate on top of the Flat Tops (here characterized by flat Paleozoic rocks, overlain by the collected basalt)
May 08 2020 - 11:01 am

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180 degree panorama from Flat Tops to Grand Mesa emphasizing the Sawatch and Elk Mountains
May 08 2020 - 11:12 am

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Sawatch Range (Mt. Elbert (14,433' highest in Colorado) next to Mt. Massive (14,421 2^nd highest)
May 08 2020 - 11:14 am

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Elk Mountains (Capitol Peak (14,130' right), Snowmass Mountain (14,092' center) and Maroon Peaks and Pyramid Peak (14,156', 14,014' and 14,018')
May 08 2020 - 11:13 am

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Lichen on limestone
May 08 2020 - 11:16 am

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Coffee Pot Road (Mt. Elbert-Mt. Massive in background, what geologists call a massif)
May 08 2020 - 1:03 pm

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Sure sign of back county, twisty roads
May 08 2020 - 1:24 pm

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Back to CO 131 north
May 20 2020 - 10:50 am

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A pair of eagles (you can tell they're eagles by size and flat wings)
May 08 2020 - 5:08 pm

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Ranch entry
May 20 2020 - 11:04 am

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Close up (Flat Tops in background)
May 20 2020 - 11:04 am

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Volcanic ash
May 20 2020 - 11:06 am

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Rock Creek where it meets the Colorado River (divide into Yampa River basin is at Toponas)
May 20 2020 - 11:10 am

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One last look back at the Sawatch Range from the pass
May 20 2020 - 11:33 am

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Over a pass between branches of Egeria Creek
May 20 2020 - 11:36 am

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Toponas (pass between the Colorado and Yampa drainage basins)
May 20 2020 - 1:02 pm

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East on CO 134 to Gore Pass

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Rabbit Ears Range from CO 134
May 20 2020 - 1:43 pm

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The only views were along cleared power lines (tree tunnels all the way)
May 20 2020 - 1:50 pm

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Back to CO 131, Upper Yampa Valley
May 20 2020 - 11:41 am

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Flat Tops (Orno Peak, 12,133' center)
May 20 2020 - 11:48 am

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Cattle ranch along the Yampa River
May 20 2020 - 11:52 am

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Ranch house
May 20 2020 - 11:53 am

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Finger Rock, the first of several volcanic necks
May 20 2020 - 1:09 pm

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Baked Mancos Shale
May 20 2020 - 1:13 pm

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The reason, 2' thick dike holding up the hill
May 20 2020 - 1:15 pm

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Volcanics Dikes and Necks
May 20 2020 - 1:18 pm

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Sources of Flat Tops basalt flows
May 20 2020 - 1:23 pm

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Oak Creek
May 20 2020 - 1:31 pm

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Park Range peeking out
May 20 2020 - 1:42 pm

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Park Range north of Steamboat Springs
May 20 2020 - 1:47 pm

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Canyon in the Gore Range over pond along the Yampa River
May 20 2020 - 1:54 pm

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Cascading spring runoff
May 20 2020 - 1:54 pm

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Steamboat Springs condos
May 20 2020 - 1:56 pm

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North End of CO 131, US 40 at Steamboat Springs
May 20 2020 - 1:56 pm