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June 7 – 17, 2016
June 7 – 17, 2016
Colorado: Wolf Creek's Big Meadows, Creede, Lake City, Crawford, Carbondale, Leadville: and then it happened.
Tuesday, June 7
Copy to come later, but here's some pics...
Big Meadows, otherwise known as Little Texas. Most of the campers here were from Texas.
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| Camp Big Meadows. Not a lot of trees in camp due to the beetle kill, they had to cut most of them down. |
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| Solo trip. |
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| Pretty good spot, and a downhill drag to get the kayak to water. |
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| The bugs and the bird. |
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| How the surrounding area looks after the big fire South Fork a few years ago. |
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| Doing what he does best. |
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| A fish! a little fish, but a fish! |
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| The coolest fence treatment I've ever seen, in Creede. |
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| Me and a bluebird looking toward the town of Creede from the campground. |
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| Creede Mountain Bluebird. |
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| Love this fence. I think it was Creede, but unsure. |
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| Apparently, this is a relaxing place to be. |
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| For a bit of claustrophobia, an old jail cell from Creede. Trivia: Creede was the last silver boom town in Colorado in the 19th century. The town lept from a population of 600 in 1889 to more than 10,000 people in December 1891. |
On the road to Lake City
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| Alllllllll dead trees. A very sad state of affairs on the road to Lake City. |
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| The obligatory Airstream beauty shot in Lake City. |
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| Not sure it gets any better than this. Camping ON Lake San Cristobal in Lake City. |
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| Taken from the kayak, looks so tiny! |
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| Had time to put out a feed to work the hummer shots. |
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| Lake San Cristobal in the morning. |
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| Had dinner here. About the only place open this early in the season. BTW, Mr. Packer was a Lake City cannibal back in the late 1800s. |
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| ...no idea why... |
On the way to Crawford...
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| The west Gunnison area, on the way to Crawford has to stop for this view: Curecanti |
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| pano of shot above |
Crawford
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| This is the real deal, just had to stitch two shots together to get it all in. |
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| The most excitement of Crawford as far as we could tell, except for the biker bar full of seniors. |
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| From Crawford, a drive over to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, way way way down there. |
Carbondale
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| Celebrating our 27th Anniversary (half my life?!) in Carbondale. Were supposed to be in beautiful town of Glenwood Springs, but we didn't like the RV "resort" there, so found this place instead. Last spot she had. |
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| The view from our very small campground in Carbondale. Had a nice bike ride on the great trail they have there; could have ridden all the way to Aspen but, well, we aren't 20 anymore. |
Leadville
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| Well, we did it. Called 911 on the trail. Thankfully I had my phone. and it was charged. and had a signal too. and I remembered to take a picture!!! |
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| Not a happy camper. Almost done getting wrapped up after a few hours in the emergency room. |
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| The Killer Mountain Bike trail around Turquoise Lake we should have never taken. But we did. About 5 miles around it happened: Bill hit a rock, the bike stopped, and the brake lever stabbed him in the thigh. Blood gushed... |
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| My Jackie O bike glove bloody from holding his bike glove over the "hole" while dialing 911 with the other hand. Glad I can multi-task while shaking... |
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| Hobbling around town in Leadville the next day. |
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