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US Highway 6
64 Slides
US 6 parallels I 70 through the Colorado Rockies
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La Sal Mountains
La Sal Mountains 10 miles west of Colorado
Feb 15 2017 - 2:12 pm
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Westwater Canyon
5 miles west of Colorado
Feb 15 2017 - 5:49 pm
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360 Degree Sunset
Colorful Colorado (360 degree sunsets)
Feb 15 2017 - 5:52 pm
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Intense Rainbow
Intense summer solstice rainbow (from exit 15, Loma)
Jun 25 2021 - 7:52 pm
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Colorado National Monument
Recommended 1 hour side road (not including photo stops)
Feb 15 2017 - 11:40 am
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Book Cliffs
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
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
Entering Debeque Canyon
Jan 12 2018 - 10:39 am
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Colorado River
Colorado River in Debeque Canyon
Jan 12 2018 - 11:59 am
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Mesa Verde Sandstone
Mesa Verde sandstone reflected by the river
Feb 16 2018 - 10:53 am
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Mt. Logan
Mount Logan (8,413')
Jan 08 2017 - 11:40 am
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I 70
Roan Cliffs over the Colorado River
Apr 09 2019 - 12:44 pm
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Flat Tops Mountain Range
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
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
Blue blanket
Apr 09 2019 - 12:52 pm
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Mt. Callahan
Mt. Callahan (8,606')
May 08 2020 - 5:51 pm
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Wasatch and Green River Fms
For geology buffs
Apr 09 2019 - 12:44 pm
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Roan Cliffs

Feb 26 2017 - 1:39 pm
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Pediment Scarp
Flat clouds along pediment scarp
May 08 2020 - 4:32 pm
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Grand Hogback
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
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
I grew up in New Castle, IN
Feb 26 2017 - 2:15 pm
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Grand Hogback
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
Mancos Valley of the Grand Hogback in early October
Oct 08 2017 - 12:56 pm
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Tilted Rocks
Tilted Mesozoic rocks
Feb 26 2017 - 2:29 pm
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Geologic Labels
Geologic codes
Feb 26 2017 - 2:28 pm
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Triassic Red Beds
Tilted Sandstone (ancient sand dunes)
Feb 26 2017 - 2:27 pm
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Special Light
Special autumn light
Oct 08 2017 - 12:49 pm
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Telephoto
Telephoto
Oct 08 2017 - 12:49 pm
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Glenwood Springs, CO
Glenwood Springs
Feb 28 2020 - 10:25 am
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No Name, CO
No Name (first exit in Glenwood Canyon)
Jul 13 2017 - 2:54 pm
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Engineeing Marvel
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
Tunnels
Dec 31 2016 - 4:43 pm
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Glenwood Canyon
Early Paleozic rocks
Dec 31 2016 - 4:51 pm
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Glenwood Canyon
Glenwood Canyon in early October
Oct 08 2017 - 12:36 pm
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I 70 Along Eagle River
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
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
Pennslvanian-Permain gypsum deposits along the Eagle River
Feb 28 2020 - 10:49 am
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Mountain Basins
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
Downtown Vail behind backlit leafless trees
Feb 28 2020 - 11:19 am
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Gore Range
Coming into Vail: Eagles Nest of the Gore Range in background
Feb 28 2020 - 11:21 am
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Holy Cross Mountain
Mountain of the Holy Cross (14,005' in the Sawatch Range)
Feb 28 2020 - 11:34 am
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Gore Range
South end of the Gore Range
Nov 12 2019 - 12:31 pm
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Vail Pass
Vail Pass (10,666')
Apr 06 2017 - 4:09 pm
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Blue River Valley
Approaching the Blue River Valley
Feb 28 2020 - 11:43 am
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Torreys Peak
Torreys Peak (14,267') and Grays Peak (14,270')
Apr 06 2017 - 3:55 pm
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Grays Peak
Different weather
Dec 31 2016 - 3:35 pm
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Front Range
Front Range
Nov 30 2017 - 4:14 pm
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I 70 Closed
Later today I 70 was closed (avalanches)
Jan 08 2017 - 3:19 pm
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Eisenhower Tunnel
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
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
The same road far below
Apr 06 2017 - 3:55 pm
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Sine Curves
Perfect sine curves
Apr 06 2017 - 2:54 pm
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Snow
Almost at the pass
Apr 06 2017 - 2:43 pm
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Loveland Pass
Loveland Pass
Nov 30 2017 - 3:39 pm
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Great Pyrenees
Only skilled skiers and boarders (Great Pyrenees allowed)
Apr 06 2017 - 3:40 pm
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Ski Tracks
Human tracks everywhere
Apr 06 2017 - 2:43 pm
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Arapahoe Ski Area
Arapahoe Ski Basin
Apr 06 2017 - 3:28 pm
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Pettigingell Peak
Ten Mile Range
Apr 06 2017 - 3:19 pm
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Buffalo Mountain
Buffalo Mountain (12,777'), Red Peak (13,189') and south Gore Range
Apr 06 2017 - 3:28 pm
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Front Range
The rest of the Front Range
Nov 12 2019 - 12:46 pm
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Great Plains
Is a long slope to the Great Plains
Nov 12 2019 - 1:10 pm
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I 25
End of US 6, I 70 through the Colorado Rockies
I 25 in Denver