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![US Highway 6](../../images/roads/us006-01.jpg)
64 Slides
US 6 parallels I 70 through the Colorado Rockies
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![La Sal Mountains](../../images/roads/us006-02.JPG)
La Sal Mountains 10 miles west of Colorado
Feb 15 2017 - 2:12 pm
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![Westwater Canyon](../../images/roads/us006-03.JPG)
5 miles west of Colorado
Feb 15 2017 - 5:49 pm
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![360 Degree Sunset](../../images/roads/us006-04.JPG)
Colorful Colorado (360 degree sunsets)
Feb 15 2017 - 5:52 pm
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![Intense Rainbow](../../images/roads/us006-04a.JPG)
Intense summer solstice rainbow (from exit 15, Loma)
Jun 25 2021 - 7:52 pm
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![Colorado National Monument](../../images/roads/us006-05.JPG)
Recommended 1 hour side road (not including photo stops)
Feb 15 2017 - 11:40 am
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![Book Cliffs](../../images/roads/us006-06.JPG)
Book Cliffs just after a snow (snow doesn't long survive on southwest facing cliffs)
Jan 12 2018 - 10:36 am
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![Grand Mesa](../../images/roads/us006-07.jpg)
Grand Mesa rising 1 mile above the Grand Valley (largest flat-topped mountain in the world, so the locals say)
Feb 28 2017 - 12:18 pm
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![Debeque Canyon](../../images/roads/us006-08.jpg)
Entering Debeque Canyon
Jan 12 2018 - 10:39 am
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![Colorado River](../../images/roads/us006-09.JPG)
Colorado River in Debeque Canyon
Jan 12 2018 - 11:59 am
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![Mesa Verde Sandstone](../../images/roads/us006-10.JPG)
Mesa Verde sandstone reflected by the river
Feb 16 2018 - 10:53 am
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![Mt. Logan](../../images/roads/us006-11.JPG)
Mount Logan (8,413')
Jan 08 2017 - 11:40 am
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![I 70](../../images/roads/us006-12.JPG)
Roan Cliffs over the Colorado River
Apr 09 2019 - 12:44 pm
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![Flat Tops Mountain Range](../../images/roads/us006-13.jpg)
Flat Tops Mountain Range beyond Mesa Verde dip-slope off Battlement Mesa and into the Piceance Basin
Feb 26 2017 - 1:28 pm
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![Houston Mountain](../../images/roads/us006-14.JPG)
Battlement Mesa: Houston Mountain (10,270') and Doghead Mountain (9,685') framing North Mamm Peak (11,123')>
May 26 2020 - 7:34 pm
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![Flowers](../../images/roads/us006-15.JPG)
Blue blanket
Apr 09 2019 - 12:52 pm
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![Mt. Callahan](../../images/roads/us006-16.JPG)
Mt. Callahan (8,606')
May 08 2020 - 5:51 pm
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![Wasatch and Green River Fms](../../images/roads/us006-17.jpg)
For geology buffs
Apr 09 2019 - 12:44 pm
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![Roan Cliffs](../../images/roads/us006-18.jpg)
Feb 26 2017 - 1:39 pm
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![Pediment Scarp](../../images/roads/us006-19.jpg)
Flat clouds along pediment scarp
May 08 2020 - 4:32 pm
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![Grand Hogback](../../images/roads/us006-20.JPG)
Grand Hogback (Paleocene-Eocene Wasatch Formation and Cretaceous Mesa Verde Formation tilted along the western Flat Tops uplift)
May 13 2017 - 12:42 pm
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![CO 13](../../images/roads/us006-21.JPG)
Roan Cliffs (right) and Grand Hogback (left) (CO 13 from Rifle and Meeker follows the Wasatch Formation gap between the two landforms)
Feb 28 2020 - 10:07 am
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![New Castle, CO](../../images/roads/us006-22.jpg)
I grew up in New Castle, IN
Feb 26 2017 - 2:15 pm
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![Grand Hogback](../../images/roads/us006-23.jpg)
Cretaceous gives way to Paleozoic along the Grand Hogback between New Castle and Glenwood Springs
Feb 26 2017 - 2:23 pm
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![Mancos Valley](../../images/roads/us006-24.JPG)
Mancos Valley of the Grand Hogback in early October
Oct 08 2017 - 12:56 pm
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![Tilted Rocks](../../images/roads/us006-25.jpg)
Tilted Mesozoic rocks
Feb 26 2017 - 2:29 pm
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![Geologic Labels](../../images/roads/us006-26.jpg)
Geologic codes
Feb 26 2017 - 2:28 pm
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![Triassic Red Beds](../../images/roads/us006-27.jpg)
Tilted Sandstone (ancient sand dunes)
Feb 26 2017 - 2:27 pm
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![Special Light](../../images/roads/us006-28.JPG)
Special autumn light
Oct 08 2017 - 12:49 pm
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![Telephoto](../../images/roads/us006-29.JPG)
Telephoto
Oct 08 2017 - 12:49 pm
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![Glenwood Springs, CO](../../images/roads/us006-30.JPG)
Glenwood Springs
Feb 28 2020 - 10:25 am
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![No Name, CO](../../images/roads/us006-31.JPG)
No Name (first exit in Glenwood Canyon)
Jul 13 2017 - 2:54 pm
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![Engineeing Marvel](../../images/roads/us006-32.JPG)
Engineering marvel (minimum enviromental impact for interstates, not nearly as much as the power station)
Feb 28 2020 - 10:30 am
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![Tunnels](../../images/roads/us006-33.JPG)
Tunnels
Dec 31 2016 - 4:43 pm
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![Glenwood Canyon](../../images/roads/us006-34.JPG)
Early Paleozic rocks
Dec 31 2016 - 4:51 pm
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![Glenwood Canyon](../../images/roads/us006-35.JPG)
Glenwood Canyon in early October
Oct 08 2017 - 12:36 pm
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![I 70 Along Eagle River](../../images/roads/us006-36.jpg)
I 70 and the Eagle River Valley at Dotsero (from Coffee Pot Road)
May 15 2013 - 10:56 am
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![Glenwood Canyon Pig Roundup](../../images/roads/us006-37.JPG)
10 hour closure of I 70 (it took that long to roundup 80 pigs from an overturned truck in Glenwood Canyon)
Sep 11 2017 - 5:49 pm
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![Gypsum, CO](../../images/roads/us006-38.JPG)
Pennslvanian-Permain gypsum deposits along the Eagle River
Feb 28 2020 - 10:49 am
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![Mountain Basins](../../images/roads/us006-39.JPG)
Mountain basin (Cretaceous rocks survive in basins, stripped from pre-Cambrian cored ranges)
Nov 12 2019 - 11:42 am
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![Vail, CO](../../images/roads/us006-40.JPG)
Downtown Vail behind backlit leafless trees
Feb 28 2020 - 11:19 am
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![Gore Range](../../images/roads/us006-41.JPG)
Coming into Vail: Eagles Nest of the Gore Range in background
Feb 28 2020 - 11:21 am
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![Holy Cross Mountain](../../images/roads/us006-42.JPG)
Mountain of the Holy Cross (14,005' in the Sawatch Range)
Feb 28 2020 - 11:34 am
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![Gore Range](../../images/roads/us006-43.JPG)
South end of the Gore Range
Nov 12 2019 - 12:31 pm
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![Vail Pass](../../images/roads/us006-44.JPG)
Vail Pass (10,666')
Apr 06 2017 - 4:09 pm
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![Blue River Valley](../../images/roads/us006-45.JPG)
Approaching the Blue River Valley
Feb 28 2020 - 11:43 am
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![Torreys Peak](../../images/roads/us006-46.JPG)
Torreys Peak (14,267') and Grays Peak (14,270')
Apr 06 2017 - 3:55 pm
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![Grays Peak](../../images/roads/us006-47.JPG)
Different weather
Dec 31 2016 - 3:35 pm
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![Front Range](../../images/roads/us006-48.JPG)
Front Range
Nov 30 2017 - 4:14 pm
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![I 70 Closed](../../images/roads/us006-49.JPG)
Later today I 70 was closed (avalanches)
Jan 08 2017 - 3:19 pm
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![Eisenhower Tunnel](../../images/roads/us006-50.JPG)
Eisenhower Tunnel (1.7 miles through the crest of the Front Range)
Nov 12 2019 - 12:34 pm
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![Recommend Loveland Pass](../../images/roads/us006-51.JPG)
US 6 exit recommended over for a loop back to I 70 over Loveland Pass (if open and clear)
Nov 12 2019 - 12:37 pm
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![US 6](../../images/roads/us006-52.JPG)
The same road far below
Apr 06 2017 - 3:55 pm
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![Sine Curves](../../images/roads/us006-53.JPG)
Perfect sine curves
Apr 06 2017 - 2:54 pm
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![Snow](../../images/roads/us006-54.JPG)
Almost at the pass
Apr 06 2017 - 2:43 pm
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![Loveland Pass](../../images/roads/us006-55.jpg)
Loveland Pass
Nov 30 2017 - 3:39 pm
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![Great Pyrenees](../../images/roads/us006-56.JPG)
Only skilled skiers and boarders (Great Pyrenees allowed)
Apr 06 2017 - 3:40 pm
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![Ski Tracks](../../images/roads/us006-57.JPG)
Human tracks everywhere
Apr 06 2017 - 2:43 pm
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![Arapahoe Ski Area](../../images/roads/us006-58.JPG)
Arapahoe Ski Basin
Apr 06 2017 - 3:28 pm
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![Pettigingell Peak](../../images/roads/us006-59.JPG)
Ten Mile Range
Apr 06 2017 - 3:19 pm
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![Buffalo Mountain](../../images/roads/us006-60.JPG)
Buffalo Mountain (12,777'), Red Peak (13,189') and south Gore Range
Apr 06 2017 - 3:28 pm
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![Front Range](../../images/roads/us006-61.JPG)
The rest of the Front Range
Nov 12 2019 - 12:46 pm
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![Great Plains](../../images/roads/us006-62.JPG)
Is a long slope to the Great Plains
Nov 12 2019 - 1:10 pm
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![I 25](../../images/roads/us006-63.jpg)
End of US 6, I 70 through the Colorado Rockies
I 25 in Denver