We spent the days driving around the mountains of southwestern Colorado. Both days we took forest service roads to go over mountain passes greater than 10,000 feet. The first day we ran into impassable snow at 10,000 feet and had to turn around. We took a brief hike along the snow's edges, and then retraced our steps. The trip was full of spectacular scenery.
The next day the goal was to end up in Telluride, but we got there again by forest service roads over a 10,000 foot pass. This time we got through, and the view from the top was great; snow capped mountains all around while we stood in the middle of a huge meadow. We made our way over to Telluride and rode the chair lift. Telluride is an impressive place, situated in a box canyon. The huge temporary waterfalls created by the unprecedented early melting of the snow pack (unusually high temperatures and a few dust storms that coated a lot of the snow pack) were frequent and massive. We ended the day with a dinner in a bar in Dolores, then went across the street to play shuffleboard (Gregg and Sue beat Elise and me 21-20). During the game, the karaoke started, and some of those guys were pretty good, particularly the cowboys we had seen on our drive over the mountain who were moving their cattle to summer pasture. We had to spend ten minutes maneuvering the car through the herd, the cowboys on horse, and their herding dogs.
No comments:
Post a Comment