US 40 (E to W)

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63 Slides
Berthoud Pass, Winter Park, Granby, Colorado River, Kremmling, Steamboat Springs, Yampa River, Craig, Dinosaur

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East end of US 40 through the Rockies, I-70 Empire exit
image from Google: US 40 exit I 70

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Stanley Mountain(12,521') appears immediately
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Glacial cirque, ridgeline continues above 12,000' about 4 miles north from Stanley Mountain
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Berthoud Pass (11,315')
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Nature abhors a vacuum
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Parry Peak (13,391') of the Front Range
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Storms moving over the Front Range
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Winter Park
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Twin Cones (12,060'), clear to the southwest
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Indian Peaks of the Front Range over Fraser River terraces, still cloudy to the northeast
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Coming into Granby at the Fraser - Colorado River confluence (Rabbit Ears Range in the background)
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Middle Park Formation Volcanic Rocks
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Overlying Mesa Verde Sandstones
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Overlying Dakota Sandstone
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Pre-Cambrian granite and metamorphic rocks in Byers Canyon (perhaps a Neogene monadnock)
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Logging but not here, in the monocultured mountains (same size logs)
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US 40 follows the Colorado River between Granby and Kremmling
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Elliot Ridge anchoring the high peaks of the Gore Range south of Kremmling
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Gore Canyon cut by the Colorado River through (here into) the Gore Range despite hard pre-Cambrian rocks
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Whiteley Peak (10,115') of the Rabbit Ears Range
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Rabbit Ears Range
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Rabbit Ears Pass
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Abundant snow at the pass
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And along US 40 following the flat-topped Gore Range for about 6 miles
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Brief glimpses of The Flat Tops
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And Roan Cliffs
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Flat Tops basalt sitting on Roan Cliffs
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Whimsical Sculpture downtown Steamboat Springs
Sep 29 2011 - 6:24 pm

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The Springs
Sep 29 2011 - 6:43 pm

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Chapel outside Steamboat Springs
May 20 2020 - 2:11 pm

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Yampa River in flood (US 40 follows the Yampa River from Steamboat Spring to Maybell)
May 20 2020 - 2:27 pm

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Mesa Verde Sandstone off and on all the way to the Utah border and beyond
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Local Mesa Verde coal occurring under the sandstones, usually (Hayden Power Plant)
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Downtown Hayden
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Ferdinand Hayden: abundant features named for him (e.g. Hayden Peak in the Uintas, Hayden Spire in RMNP, Hayden, CO)
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Swells and Swales of Mesa Verde sandstones
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Mirages on roadway caused by heat absorbing fragmented pavement and view angle
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Yampa River
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Side trip to Gates of Ladore on CO 318
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Brown Park irrigated by the Green River
Oct 01 2011 - 6:03 pm

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Juniper survivor
Oct 01 2011 - 5:58 pm

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Uinta Quartzite
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Green River exiting Browns Park (flow toward viewer)
Oct 01 2011 - 5:17 pm

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Green River entering the Uinta Mountains (flow away from viewer)
Oct 01 2011 - 4:42 pm

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After scrambling along a well-traveled trail
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The Gates of Ladore
Oct 01 2011 - 5:07 pm

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Back to US 40
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Roan Cliffs
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Roan Cliffs (wide angle)
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East end of Dinosaur National Monument dead ahead
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Side road north
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Uplift along the south bounding monocline of Dinosaur National Monument
May 16 2013 - 5:14 pm

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Right to Left (Younger to Older): Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, Triassic Red Beds fading to Permian shales, and Permian Weber Eolian Sandstone
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Folded Weber Sandstone along the south bounding monocline
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Back to US 40
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Mancos Shale hogbacks along south bounding monocline
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Cretaceous Mesa Verde sandstone hogbacks, flat Triassic Red Beds in background raised in the anticline center
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Roan Cliffs over dilapidated loading chute
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Jurassic Entrada Sandstone and Triassic Red Beds forming the cliffs in the background
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Dinosaur, CO right at the Utah border
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Utah (around the corner)
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Kings Peak, (13,512') highest peak in the Utah
Mar 28 2021 - 2:53 pm