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58 Slides
Up and over the San Juan Mountains
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North end, US 50 at bridge over the Gunnison River at the end of Blue Mesa Reservoir
Nov 05 2020 - 12:34 pm
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Blue Mesa Reservior (low in November after the irrigation season and before the spring snow melt)
Nov 05 2020 - 12:35 pm
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San Luis Peak (14,074')
Nov 05 2020 - 12:47 pm
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Volcanic Plateau ~8,500'
Nov 05 2020 - 12:52 pm
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La Garita Mountains from left: Baldy Chato (13,401'), Stewart Peak (13,983'), Baldy Allo (13,698'), San Luis Peak (14,074')
Nov 05 2020 - 12:55 pm
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Mountain Ranch
Nov 05 2020 - 12:58 pm
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CO 149 - Silver Thread Scenic Byway
Nov 05 2020 - 3:54 pm
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Cebolla Creek Valley
Nov 05 2020 - 1:00 pm
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Telephoto
Nov 05 2020 - 1:01 pm
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Coming down from the High Volcanic Plateau to the Lake Fork Valley
Nov 05 2020 - 1:09 pm
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Notorious Cannibalism
Nov 05 2020 - 1:13 pm
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Lake Fork Valley cutting into ashflow deposits from ~30,000,000 yr old volcanoes
Nov 05 2020 - 1:18 pm
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Downstream view of the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River
Nov 05 2020 - 1:25 pm
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Chapel apparently built for one gravestone
Nov 05 2020 - 1:33 pm
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Soft ash deposits interbedded with the hard ashflows
Nov 05 2020 - 1:35 pm
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Road sign about the Lake Fork
Nov 05 2020 - 1:39 pm
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Upstream view of the river
Nov 05 2020 - 1:39 pm
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Lake City
Nov 05 2020 - 1:51 pm
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View from the city
Nov 05 2020 - 1:52 pm
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Quaint houses in Lake City
Nov 05 2020 - 1:58 pm
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Fish hatcheries on the Lake Fork
Nov 05 2020 - 2:02 pm
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Volcanoes built the San Juans (eruptions occur every 100,000 years or so)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:06 pm
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Glaciers eroded the mountains (in about the same 100,000 year cycle)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:09 pm
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Uncompahgre Peak (14,309') (through three miles of endless trees along the road blocking spectacular the view)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:15 pm
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Road sign about the Slumgullion Earth Flow
Nov 05 2020 - 2:18 pm
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Vertical trees indicate stabilized earth flow
Nov 05 2020 - 2:18 pm
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Breakaway scarp (areal view shows photo perspective)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:19 pm
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Recommended (200 yards up a paved road to a broad parking lot)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:36 pm
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Why recommended? (finally a view not obstructed by trees)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:32 pm
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From Left: Sunshine Mountain (13,321'), Wetterhorn Peak(14,015'), Matterhorn Peak (13,590'), Broken Hill (13,526'), Uncompaghge Peak (14,309')
Nov 05 2020 - 2:31 pm
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Sunshine Peak (14,001'), Red Cloud Peak (14,034') hiding in trees at right
Nov 05 2020 - 2:28 pm
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Lake Fork Valley surmounted by four 14er's from left (Sunshine, Red Cloud, Wetterhorn, Uncompahgre Peaks)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:31 pm
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Uncompahgre Group through a beetle-kill spruce forest
Nov 05 2020 - 2:39 pm
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La Garita Mountains, Cinco Baldy (13,383') right
Nov 05 2020 - 2:28 pm
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Hot Ash Flow Deposits from the La Garita Caldera about 10 miles away
Nov 05 2020 - 2:44 pm
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Logging spruce trees killed by the beetle outbreak
Nov 05 2020 - 2:46 pm
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High Valley beneath azure Colorado sky
Nov 05 2020 - 2:50 pm
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Colorado River to the west; Rio Grande to the east
Nov 05 2020 - 2:54 pm
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Beetle kill
Nov 05 2020 - 3:00 pm
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Beetle kill road sign
Nov 05 2020 - 2:59 pm
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Headwaters of the Rio Grande
Nov 05 2020 - 3:05 pm
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Looking ahead to the Creede Caldera
Nov 05 2020 - 2:56 pm
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Rio Grande Pyramid (13,821')at the head of the Rio Grande Valley
Nov 05 2020 - 3:09 pm
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Bristol Head (12,706')
Nov 05 2020 - 3:11 pm
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La Garita Mountains
Nov 05 2020 - 3:19 pm
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Approaching Antelope Valley
Nov 05 2020 - 3:23 pm
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Resurgent Dome of the Creed Caldera (La Garita Mountains in background are caldera rim)
Nov 05 2020 - 3:27 pm
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Rio Grande
Nov 05 2020 - 3:26 pm
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Glacial terminal moraines below Bristol Head
Jul 24 2018 - 2:15 pm
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Rio Grande terraces just downstream from moraines
Jul 24 2018 - 2:35 pm
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Creede
Jul 24 2018 - 1:26 pm
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Main Street
Jul 24 2018 - 1:26 pm
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Entering Rio Grande Canyon (through the caldera wall)
Nov 05 2020 - 3:58 pm
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Volcanic weathering
Nov 05 2020 - 4:02 pm
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Rio Grande Palisades
Nov 05 2020 - 4:07 pm
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Coming into South Fork (town and river)
Nov 05 2020 - 4:11 pm
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South end of CO 149
US 160 at South Fork