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![US 24](../../images/roads/us024-01.JPG)
75 slides:
I 25 in Colorado Springs to I 70 in the Rocky Mountains
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![I 25](../../images/roads/us024-02.JPG)
Slides start at I 25 in Colorado Springs
at Garden of the Gods
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-03.JPG)
First a loop through Garden of the Gods
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-04.JPG)
Saturday: lots of people on a clear, Indian Summer weekend
Nov 13 2021 - 12:44 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-05.JPG)
Entry to Garden of the Gods
Nov 13 2021 - 12:48 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-06.JPG)
Triassic sandstones tilted by the Rocky Mountain uplift
Nov 13 2021 - 12:49 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-07.JPG)
Wild turkeys and people watching wild turkeys
Nov 13 2021 - 12:50 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-08.JPG)
Pikes Peak (14,115') from Garden of the Gods
Nov 13 2021 - 12:52 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-09.JPG)
Garden of the Gods
Nov 13 2021 - 12:54 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-10.JPG)
Boulders
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-11.JPG)
Loop road
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-12.JPG)
Another view of Pikes Peak
Nov 13 2021 - 12:56 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-13.JPG)
Hand of a god
Nov 13 2021 - 12:56 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-14.JPG)
Perhaps giving the finger to the world
Nov 13 2021 - 12:56 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-15.JPG)
Bicyclist
Nov 13 2021 - 1:03 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-16.JPG)
Hogback buttes
Nov 13 2021 - 1:04 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-17.JPG)
Crowded road
Nov 13 2021 - 1:08 pm
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![Garden of the Gods](../../images/roads/us024-18.JPG)
Mesozoic sandstone hogback buttes
Nov 13 2021 - 1:10 pm
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![US 24](../../images/roads/us024-19.JPG)
West from Garden of the Gods
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![Pikes Peak](../../images/roads/us024-21.JPG)
Pikes Peak dominates the Front Range skyline east of Wilkerson Pass
Nov 13 2021 - 11:50 am
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![Pikes Peak](../../images/roads/us024-20.JPG)
Telephoto
Nov 13 2021 - 11:50 am
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![Wilkerson Pass](../../images/roads/us024-22.JPG)
Wilkerson Pass over the Front Range
Nov 13 2021 - 11:46 am
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![Ten Mile Range](../../images/roads/us024-23.JPG)
The west side of the pass, Mosquito and Ten Mile Ranges over South Park
Nov 13 2021 - 11:45 am
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![Front Range](../../images/roads/us024-24.JPG)
US 24 looking east at the Front Range
Nov 13 2021 - 11:38 am
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![South Park](../../images/roads/us024-25.JPG)
South Park
Feb 28 2020 - 3:09 pm
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![Cirrus Clouds](../../images/roads/us024-26.JPG)
Pancake cirrus clouds over South Park
Nov 13 2021 - 1:10 pm
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![Mosquito Range](../../images/roads/us024-27.JPG)
The whole Mosquito Range
Nov 13 2021 - 2:59 pm
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![Mesozoic Hogbacks](../../images/roads/us024-28.JPG)
Mesozoic hogbacks tilted by the Front Range uplift in background
Nov 13 2021 - 11:28 am
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![US 24](../../images/roads/us024-29.JPG)
Intersection of US 285 (straight) and US 24 (right)
Nov 13 2021 - 10:48 am
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![Mt. Sherman](../../images/roads/us024-30.JPG)
Mt. Sherman (14,043')
Nov 13 2021 - 10:50 am
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![Mt. Sherman](../../images/roads/us024-31.JPG)
Mt. Sherman three weeks earlier
Nov 06 2020 - 11:51 am
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![South Park](../../images/roads/us024-32.JPG)
Mesozoic hogbacks (foreground and middleground) in South Park tilted toward the Mosquito Range uplift (background)
Nov 13 2021 - 2:48 pm
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![Buffalo Peaks](../../images/roads/us024-33.JPG)
West Buffalo Peak (13,326') and East Buffalo Peak (13,300')
Nov 13 2021 - 10:44 am
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![Trout Creek Pass](../../images/roads/us024-34.JPG)
Trout Creek Pass
Nov 13 2021 - 10:47 am
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![US 24](../../images/roads/us024-35.JPG)
Steep road into the Upper Arkansas River Valley
Nov 06 2020 - 12:15 pm
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![Sawatch Range](../../images/roads/us024-36.JPG)
Sawatch Range between Salida and Poncha Springs (terraces are flat surfaces along South Fork Arkansas River that the road is built on and the midground)
Nov 13 2021 - 10:11 am
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![Mt. Antero](../../images/roads/us024-37.JPG)
Mt. Antero (14,276')
Nov 13 2021 - 10:14 am
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![Mt. Princeton](../../images/roads/us024-38.JPG)
Mt. Princeton (14,196')
Nov 13 2021 - 10:33 am
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![Sawatch Range](../../images/roads/us024-39.JPG)
Sawatch Range
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![Mt. Princeton](../../images/roads/us024-40.JPG)
Chalk Cliffs on Mt. Princeton
Nov 13 2021 - 10:11 am
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![US 285](../../images/roads/us024-41.JPG)
South on US 285 to Poncha Pass
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![Poncha Pass](../../images/roads/us024-42.JPG)
Relatively low divide between major rivers (turn around at Poncha Pass)
Sep 11 2017 - 11:48 am
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![Arkansas Valley](../../images/roads/us024-43.JPG)
Upper Arkansas River Valley
Nov 13 2021 - 9:50 am
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![14er's](../../images/roads/us024-44.JPG)
Fifteen, more than any other range (the crest of the Rockies in both the US and Canada)
Sep 09 2011 - 9:29 am
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![Mt. Ouray](../../images/roads/us024-45.JPG)
Mt. Ouray (13,971') (transition between Sangre de Cristo Range to the south and the Sawatch Range to the north)
Nov 06 2020 - 9:24 am
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![Tetrahedra](../../images/roads/us024-46.JPG)
Pahlone Peak (12,662') and unnamed neighbor (11,892') are tetrahedra, Gaia's favorite form
Nov 06 2020 - 9:18 am
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![Shavano Peak](../../images/roads/us024-47.JPG)
(from right): Mt. Shavano (14,229'), Tabaguache Peak (14,155') and Carbonate Mountain (13,570')
Nov 06 2020 - 9:24 am
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![Cirrus Clouds](../../images/roads/us024-48.JPG)
Cirrus Clouds over South Park
Nov 13 2021 - 2:13 pm
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![US 24](../../images/roads/us024-49.JPG)
Back to US 24
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![Mt. Antero](../../images/roads/us024-50.JPG)
Mt. Antero (14,275')
Nov 27 2020 - 2:03 pm
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![Mt. Princeton](../../images/roads/us024-51.JPG)
Mt. Princeton (14,196') over the South Fork Arkansas River terraces
Nov 27 2020 - 2:03 pm
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![Mt. Harvard](../../images/roads/us024-52.JPG)
Mt. Harvard (14,420') (third highest peak in Colorado)
Nov 06 2020 - 4:08 pm
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![Mt. Oxford](../../images/roads/us024-53.JPG)
Mt. Oxford (14,153') (up CO 82 a short way to Twin Lakes)
Nov 06 2020 - 1:15 pm
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![Mt. Massive](../../images/roads/us024-54.JPG)
Mt. Elbert (14,443') and Mt. Massive (14,421') two highest peaks in Colorado
Nov 27 2020 - 2:43 pm
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![Mt. Elbert](../../images/roads/us024-55.JPG)
Mt. Elbert highest 14er in Colorado
Nov 06 2020 - 1:14 pm
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![Mt. Belford](../../images/roads/us024-56.JPG)
From left: Mt. Oxford (14,153'), Mt. Belford (14,197'), Missouri Mountain (14,067'), La Plata Peak (14,361')
Nov 06 2020 - 1:31 pm
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![Galena Mountain](../../images/roads/us024-57.JPG)
Galena Mountain (12,823') behind Leadville mine workings
Nov 27 2020 - 3:12 pm
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![Leadville, CO](../../images/roads/us024-58.JPG)
Highest incorporated town in the United States
Nov 27 2020 - 3:13 pm
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![Leadville Boom Days](../../images/roads/us024-59.JPG)
Leadville Boom Days drilling contest
Sep 29 2011 - 10:32 am
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![Leadville, CO](../../images/roads/us024-60.JPG)
Leadville
Nov 27 2020 - 3:17 pm
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![Mt. Elbert](../../images/roads/us024-61.JPG)
Mt. Elbert (14,443') and Mt. Massive (14,421') from the north
Apr 06 2017 - 12:44 pm
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![Log Cabin](../../images/roads/us024-62.JPG)
Mt. Massive over log cabin
Apr 06 2017 - 12:46 pm
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![Mt. Massive](../../images/roads/us024-63.JPG)
Last look back at Mt. Massive
Apr 06 2017 - 12:50 pm
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![Arkansas River](../../images/roads/us024-64.JPG)
Upper Arkansas River
Apr 06 2017 - 12:21 pm
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![Snowy Mountain](../../images/roads/us024-65.JPG)
Up to Tennessee Pass
Nov 27 2020 - 3:31 pm
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![Arkansas River Side](../../images/roads/us024-66.JPG)
Atlantic side of the pass
Sep 29 2011 - 10:32 am
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![Tennessee Pass](../../images/roads/us024-67.JPG)
Tennessee Pass
Apr 06 2017 - 12:42 pm
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![Eagle River Side](../../images/roads/us024-68.JPG)
Pacific side of the pass
Sep 29 2011 - 10:50 am
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![Eagle River Canyon](../../images/roads/us024-69.JPG)
Down Eagle River Canyon
Nov 27 2020 - 3:41 pm
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![Beaver Pond](../../images/roads/us024-70.JPG)
Beaver Pond
Sep 29 2011 - 11:51 am
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![Knotch Mountain](../../images/roads/us024-71.JPG)
Appropriatley named Notch Mountain (13,237')
Apr 06 2017 - 12:03 pm
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![Golden Aspen](../../images/roads/us024-72.JPG)
Colorful Colorado
Sep 29 2011 - 11:56 am
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![Gold Mining](../../images/roads/us024-73.JPG)
Gold
Sep 29 2011 - 12:20 pm
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![Eagle River Valley](../../images/roads/us024-74.JPG)
Eagle River Valley
Sep 29 2011 - 12:58 am
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![I 70](../../images/roads/us024-75.JPG)
West end of US 24
I 70 at Minturn