CO 133 (N to S)

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47 Slides
including Kebler Pass Road

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North End of CO 133
CO 82 in Carbondale

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Mount Sopris (12,660') (northernmost of the West Elk Mountains)
Feb 26 2017 - 3:03 pm

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Mount Sopris and other West Elk Mountains are cored by granodiorite (many are laccoliths intruded about 30,000,000 years ago)
Feb 26 2017 - 3:03 pm

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90 of 249 Coke Ovens preserved as an Pitkin County Historic District
Feb 26 2017 - 3:27 pm

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Falls to the Crystal River (spring snow melt, dry the rest of the year)
May 12 2019 - 4:00 pm

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Frozen Hays Creek Falls (at the end of February)
Feb 26 2017 - 3:32 pm

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A Month and Year Later
Mar 30 2018 - 3:16 pm

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Seepage on Top of Mesa Verde Sandstone
Feb 26 2017 - 3:35 pm

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West Elk Mountains Ahead
Jun 27 2017 - 1:30 pm

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Headed Up McClure Pass
Feb 26 2017 - 3:42 pm

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Elk Mountain (11,826' left) and the right arm of the chair of Chair Mountain
May 12 2019 - 4:11 pm

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Crystal River Valley (looking downstream, Mount Sopris in background)
May 12 2019 - 4:20 pm

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Northern West Elk Mountains from Mount Sopris (left) to Chair Mountain (right)
May 12 2019 - 4:27 pm

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Chair Mountain (12,781')
May 12 2019 - 4:28 pm

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Elk Mountain and Upper Crystal River Valley
May 12 2019 - 4:28 pm

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McClure Pass
May 12 2019 - 4:32 pm

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Chair Mountain and north end of the Raggeds
May 12 2019 - 4:55 pm

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The Raggeds
Feb 26 2017 - 4:29 pm

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Raggeds Peak (12,650')
Feb 26 2017 - 4:29 pm

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Marcellina Mountain (11,348')
Feb 26 2017 - 4:38 pm

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The Raggeds from Paonia Reservior
Feb 26 2017 - 4:50 pm

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Telephoto
May 12 2019 - 5:26 pm

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Gravel Road to Crested Butte (open from early June to mid to late October)
Jan 13 2020 - 4:37 pm

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Gunnison County Road 12 (Kebler Pass Road)
turn east just south of Paonia Reservoir

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Fluted north face of Marcellina Mountain (typical laccolith of the West Elk Mountains)
Jun 27 2017 - 2:45 pm

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Close Up of Granite Glacial Grooves on Marcellina Mountain
Jun 27 2017 - 3:00 pm

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A Groove (maybe the fins are related to granite intrusion along cracks in the host rock)
Jun 27 2017 - 2:44 pm

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East and West Beckwith Peaks
Jun 27 2017 - 2:37 pm

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wildflowers everywhere along the roadside
Jun 27 2017 - 3:10 pm

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Sky Blue Columbine (Colorado State Flower)
Jun 27 2017 - 3:24 pm

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Ruby Range
Jun 27 2017 - 3:44 pm

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Ruby Peak (12,644') and the Dyke from the West
Jun 27 2017 - 4:00 pm

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Ohio Peak (12,271') and the Anthracite Range (baked coal from heat of the granite intrusions)
Jun 27 2017 - 3:17 pm

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Kebler Pass
Jun 27 2017 - 4:23 pm

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Ruby Peak and the Dike from the East
Jun 27 2017 - 4:25 pm

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Back to CO 133 (south from Paonia Reservior)

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Mt. Gunnison (12,719')
May 12 2019 - 4:59 pm

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Telephoto
May 12 2019 - 4:59 pm

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Coal Mine in Mesa Verde Formation
Jun 27 2017 - 1:45 pm

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Somerset, CO
Jun 27 2017 - 1:40 pm

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Marching Martians? (ala H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds)
Jun 27 2017 - 1:44 pm

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North Fork Gunnison River Valley (coal everywhere)
Jun 27 2017 - 1:32 pm

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Ranch Entrance near Hotchkiss
Jun 04 2017 - 7:20 pm

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Dancing Elephants in Hotchkiss
Jun 04 2017 - 6:08 pm

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Lands End Peak (10,806') at Sunset (southernmost of the granite-cored West Elk Mountains)
May 15 2013 - 8:36 pm

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South End of CO 133
(CO 92 in Hotchkiss)