Sunday, August 30, 2009 Sunday was another early morning for us. After breaking down camp we were quickly on our way to Black Bear Pass. Jan taking a photo of a marmot on the rock Heading down towards Telluride Telluride down below. Just past ‘the Steps’ and on our way down the switchbacks Jan rounding [...]
Archive for August, 2009
San Juan Triangle Tour 2009: Saturday
Posted: August 29, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, animas forks, california gulch, california pass, camp, camp bird road, cement creek road, colorado, corkscrew pass, duncan residence, engineer pass, fire, ghost towns, hurricane pass, jeep, lake como, mineral creek, mining history, night, north fork of the animas river, oh point, ouray, poughkeepsie gulch, red mountain mining district, red mountain pass, red mountains, san juan mountains, silver basin, silverton, sunrise, tent, us basin, yankee girl
Saturday, August 29, 2009 It seems that both Jan and I are early risers when we are out exploring, so we got our camp packed up and finished the drive up into Silver Basin on Saturday morning. View as the sun came up in Silver Basin This pond was all reflection this early in the [...]
San Juan Triangle Tour 2009: Friday
Posted: August 28, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, camp, camp bird road, colorado, governor basin, jeep, mining history, mountain top mine, ouray, saint sophia ridge, san juan mountains, sidney basin, silver basin, yankee boy basin
Friday, August 28, 2009 The original plan for this weekend was for me to meetup with Jan and do some exploring around the Canyon of the Ancients area. However, because a few people bailed on him and he was unable to check out the San Juans with them, I offered to show him around there [...]
Hiking the Monument with my 50mm
Posted: August 23, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2009, colorado, colorado national monument, devils kitchen, grand junction, grand valley, monumen canyon, no thoroughfare canyon, ottos trail
Sunday, August 23, 2009 On Sunday I decided to do some local hiking at the Colorado National Monument. I left home without much of a plan, and when I got to the park I decided to hike to Devils Kitchen…then a little bit of No Thoroughfare Canyon. Finally I took the short Otto’s Trail to [...]
Along Engineer Pass
Posted: August 22, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, alpine plateau road, burrows creek, cabin, colorado, darley mountain, engineer pass, hurricane basin, jeep, lake city, mickey breen mine, mineral creek, mineral point, mining history, north fork cutoff, north fork of the animas river, oh point, ouray, poughkeepsie gulch, redcloud gulch, san juan mountains, schafer gulch
Saturday, August 22, 2009 This last Saturday, Amanda and I headed back to the San Juan Mountains. My goal for this day trip was to explore some spur roads off of the Engineer Pass trail that I have not been down before. We started at Mineral Creek off of US 550 and made our way [...]
Geostash Challenge 2009
Posted: August 16, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2009, cabin, evanston, flaming gorge, geostash challenge, gold hill road, intermountain chapter, jeep, naxja, rain, snow, uinta mountains, utah, vernal, whitney lake, wyoming
Friday – Sunday, August 14-16, 2009 After being home for only 4 days (all of which I had to work) from my 9 day Colorado Adventure, I headed to northern Utah to spend the weekend at the NAXJA Intermountain Chapter’s Geostash Challenge. I’ve wanted to attend this event the last two years it was held, [...]
Red and White Mountain
Posted: August 9, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2009, colorado, colorado adventure, eagles nest wilderness, gore range, jeep, piney lake road, red and white mountain, wagon, white river national forest
Colorado Adventure 2009 | Day 9 Sunday, August 9. 2009 The final day of our trip was a short one. I had been away from home for 8 days, and had a lot of stuff I needed to get done before heading back to work. We decided to run Red and White Mountain along with [...]
Chinns Lake, Kingston Peak & More
Posted: August 8, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, alice, apex, apex road, central city, chinns lake, colorado, colorado adventure, fall river road, frisco, gamble gulch, ghost towns, idaho springs, jeep, kingston peak, loch lomond, loch lomond overlook, mining history, moffat tunnel, moon gulch, oh my god road, rockhouse, rollinsville, sherwin lake, virginia canyon
Colorado Adventure 2009 | Day 8 Saturday, August 8, 2009 On Saturday, Amanda and I got yet another early start and made our way up Fall River Road. Our first destination was Chinns Lake. Sherwin Lake End of the trail Chinns Lake. This was a very popular place. There were many campers setup along the [...]
Wise Mountain & North Fork of the Swan
Posted: August 7, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, breckenridge, cabin, colorado, colorado adventure, dredge boat, front range, hall valley, hall valley overlook, jeep, middle fork of the swan, mining history, mountain goats, north fork of the swan, red cone, swan river, tiger road, wildlife, wise mountain
Colorado Adventure 2009 | Day 7 Friday, August 7, 2009 After taking a right I headed back up the Middle Fork of the Swan. The skies were much clearer today so I took some more photos along this trail… When I got up top, I found a few more Mountain Goats. I took the short [...]
Saxon Mountain, Guanella Pass, Glacier Peak
Posted: August 7, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, cabin, cascade creek, colorado, colorado adventure, continental divide, front range, georgetown, georgia pass, glacier peak, guanella pass, jeep, loveland pass, middle fork of the swan, number 10 hill, saxon mountain, saxon mountain road, sob hill, swan river, ute creek
Colorado Adventure 2009 | Day 7 Friday, August 7, 2009 This day ended up not going as I had originally planned….but in the end it turned out to be a pretty good day. I started out heading over Loveland Pass on my way to Georgetown. My original plan for the day was to start out [...]