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![Colorado State Road 149](../../images/roads/co149-01.JPG)
58 Slides
Up and over the San Juan Mountains
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![CO 149](../../images/roads/co149-02.JPG)
North end, US 50 at bridge over the Gunnison River at the end of Blue Mesa Reservoir
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![Blue Mesa Reservoir](../../images/roads/co149-03.JPG)
Blue Mesa Reservior (low in November after the irrigation season and before the spring snow melt)
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![San Luis Peak](../../images/roads/co149-04.JPG)
San Luis Peak (14,074')
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![Volcanic Plateau](../../images/roads/co149-05.JPG)
Volcanic Plateau ~8,500'
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![San Luis Group](../../images/roads/co149-06.JPG)
La Garita Mountains from left: Baldy Chato (13,401'), Stewart Peak (13,983'), Baldy Allo (13,698'), San Luis Peak (14,074')
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![Mountain Ranch](../../images/roads/co149-07.JPG)
Mountain Ranch
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![Silver Thread Scenic Byway](../../images/roads/co149-08.JPG)
CO 149 - Silver Thread Scenic Byway
Nov 05 2020 - 3:54 pm
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![Cebolla Creek](../../images/roads/co149-09.JPG)
Cebolla Creek Valley
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![Cebolla Creek Valley](../../images/roads/co149-10.JPG)
Telephoto
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![Lake Fork Gunnison River](../../images/roads/co149-11.JPG)
Coming down from the High Volcanic Plateau to the Lake Fork Valley
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![Cannibalism](../../images/roads/co149-12.JPG)
Notorious Cannibalism
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![Lake Fork Valley](../../images/roads/co149-13.JPG)
Lake Fork Valley cutting into ashflow deposits from ~30,000,000 yr old volcanoes
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![Downstream View](../../images/roads/co149-14.JPG)
Downstream view of the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River
Nov 05 2020 - 1:25 pm
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![Chapel](../../images/roads/co149-15.jpg)
Chapel apparently built for one gravestone
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![Ash Fall Deposits](../../images/roads/co149-16.JPG)
Soft ash deposits interbedded with the hard ashflows
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![Lake Fork Road Sign](../../images/roads/co149-17.JPG)
Road sign about the Lake Fork
Nov 05 2020 - 1:39 pm
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![Upstream View](../../images/roads/co149-18.JPG)
Upstream view of the river
Nov 05 2020 - 1:39 pm
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![Lake City Welcome Sign](../../images/roads/co149-19.JPG)
Lake City
Nov 05 2020 - 1:51 pm
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![View from Lake City](../../images/roads/co149-20.JPG)
View from the city
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![Quaint Houses](../../images/roads/co149-21.JPG)
Quaint houses in Lake City
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![Fish Hatcheries](../../images/roads/co149-22.JPG)
Fish hatcheries on the Lake Fork
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![100,000 year volcanic cycle](../../images/roads/co149-23.JPG)
Volcanoes built the San Juans (eruptions occur every 100,000 years or so)
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![100,000 year glacial cycle](../../images/roads/co149-24.JPG)
Glaciers eroded the mountains (in about the same 100,000 year cycle)
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![Uncompahrge Peak](../../images/roads/co149-25.JPG)
Uncompahgre Peak (14,309') (through three miles of endless trees along the road blocking spectacular the view)
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![Road Sign](../../images/roads/co149-26.JPG)
Road sign about the Slumgullion Earth Flow
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![Stabilized Earth Flow](../../images/roads/co149-27.JPG)
Vertical trees indicate stabilized earth flow
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![Breakaway Scarpt](../../images/roads/co149-28.JPG)
Breakaway scarp (areal view shows photo perspective)
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![Windy Point Overlook](../../images/roads/co149-29.JPG)
Recommended (200 yards up a paved road to a broad parking lot)
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![Unobstructed View](../../images/roads/co149-30.JPG)
Why recommended? (finally a view not obstructed by trees)
Nov 05 2020 - 2:32 pm
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![Uncompahgre Group](../../images/roads/co149-31.JPG)
From Left: Sunshine Mountain (13,321'), Wetterhorn Peak(14,015'), Matterhorn Peak (13,590'), Broken Hill (13,526'), Uncompaghge Peak (14,309')
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![Sunshine Mountain](../../images/roads/co149-32.JPG)
Sunshine Peak (14,001'), Red Cloud Peak (14,034') hiding in trees at right
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![Wetterhorn Peak](../../images/roads/co149-33.JPG)
Lake Fork Valley surmounted by four 14er's from left (Sunshine, Red Cloud, Wetterhorn, Uncompahgre Peaks)
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![Red Cloud Peak](../../images/roads/co149-34.JPG)
Uncompahgre Group through a beetle-kill spruce forest
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![La Garita Mountains](../../images/roads/co149-35.JPG)
La Garita Mountains, Cinco Baldy (13,383') right
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![La Garita Caldera](../../images/roads/co149-36.JPG)
Hot Ash Flow Deposits from the La Garita Caldera about 10 miles away
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![Logging](../../images/roads/co149-37.JPG)
Logging spruce trees killed by the beetle outbreak
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![Azure Colorado Sky](../../images/roads/co149-38.JPG)
High Valley beneath azure Colorado sky
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![Spring Creek Pass](../../images/roads/co149-39.JPG)
Colorado River to the west; Rio Grande to the east
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![Beetle Kill](../../images/roads/co149-40.JPG)
Beetle kill
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![Bettle Kill Road Sign](../../images/roads/co149-41.JPG)
Beetle kill road sign
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![Headwater of Rio Grande](../../images/roads/co149-42.JPG)
Headwaters of the Rio Grande
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![Creede Caldera](../../images/roads/co149-43.JPG)
Looking ahead to the Creede Caldera
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![Rio Grande Pryamid](../../images/roads/co149-44.JPG)
Rio Grande Pyramid (13,821')at the head of the Rio Grande Valley
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![Bristol Head](../../images/roads/co149-45.JPG)
Bristol Head (12,706')
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![La Garita Mountains](../../images/roads/co149-46.JPG)
La Garita Mountains
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![Antelope Valley](../../images/roads/co149-47.JPG)
Approaching Antelope Valley
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![Resurgent Dome](../../images/roads/co149-48.JPG)
Resurgent Dome of the Creed Caldera (La Garita Mountains in background are caldera rim)
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![Rio Grande](../../images/roads/co149-49.JPG)
Rio Grande
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![Glacial Terminal Moraines](../../images/roads/co149-50.JPG)
Glacial terminal moraines below Bristol Head
Jul 24 2018 - 2:15 pm
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![Rio Grande Terraces](../../images/roads/co149-51.JPG)
Rio Grande terraces just downstream from moraines
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![Creede, CO](../../images/roads/co149-52.JPG)
Creede
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![Main Street, Creede](../../images/roads/co149-53.JPG)
Main Street
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![Rio Grande Canyon](../../images/roads/co149-54.JPG)
Entering Rio Grande Canyon (through the caldera wall)
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![Volcanic Weathering](../../images/roads/co149-55.JPG)
Volcanic weathering
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![Rio Grande Palisades](../../images/roads/co149-56.JPG)
Rio Grande Palisades
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![South Fork, CO](../../images/roads/co149-57.JPG)
Coming into South Fork (town and river)
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![US 160](../../images/roads/co149-58.jpg)
South end of CO 149
US 160 at South Fork