Sunday, July 25, 2010 Since Amanda had to work today, it was up to me to figure out what I was going to do. While having breakfast this morning, I figured I would head up on the Uncompahgre Plateau to explore a few roads I haven’t been on yet. I started out on Divide Road [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Up on the Uncompahgre
Posted: July 25, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2010, campbell point, colorado, divide road, dolores river, dolores river gorge, jeep, la sal mountains, mesa creek, mining history, petroglyphs, rock art, salt creek canyon, sinbad valley, uncompahgre plateau, uranium mines
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Blue Lakes & Waterfalls
Posted: July 24, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, blue lakes, blue lakes pass, camp bird road, colorado, gilpin peak, imogene basin, jeep, mount sneffels, mount sneffels wilderness, ouray, richmond creek, richmond falls, twin falls, waterfalls, wrights lake, yankee boy basin
Saturday, July 24, 2010 On Saturday, Amanda and I headed a little south to Ouray and then proceeded up Camp Bird Road and into Yankee Boy Basin. Our destination was to hike to Blue Lakes Pass so that I could scout out the route up Mount Sneffels along the way for a future hike/climb. Gilpin [...]
Out of the Heat & Into the Mountains!
Posted: July 18, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Geocaching, JeepingTags: 2010, anvil mountain, buffalo boy mine, cabin, camp, colorado, cunningham gulch, deer park, jeep, kendall gulch, kendall mountain, kite lake, mining history, old lime creek road, owl creek pass, ridgway, rio grande, san juan mountains, silverton, stony pass, swansea gulch, titusville mine, tram, uncompahgre national forest
Saturday & Sunday, July 17-18, 2010 With temperatures over 100 degrees in Grand Junction this weekend, we headed up into the mountains for some cooler temperatures. We made our way south to Silverton before heading over Stony Pass. After stopping to find a geocache along the small Rio Grande, we headed for Kite Lake. Kite [...]
Handies Peak | My First 14er
Posted: July 11, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, Jeeping, MountaineeringTags: 14ers, 2010, american basin, animas forks, california pass, cinnamon pass, colorado, handies peak, hurricane pass, jeep, lake como, san juan mountains, silverton, sloan lake, summit
Sunday, July 11, 2010 One of the goals I set for myself this year was to hike a 14er. Yesterday morning two friends and I hopped into my Jeep and headed down to the San Juan Mountains to try Handies Peak. Handies Peak is 14,048 feet high and ranked 40th out of the 53 14ers [...]
Alpine Loop Day Trip
Posted: July 5, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, alpine loop, animas forks, colorado, darley mountain, engineer mountain, engineer pass, ghost town, jeep, mickey breen mine, million dollar highway, mineral creek, mineral point, mining history, oh point, ouray, poughkeepsie gulch, red mountain pass, san juan mountains, silverton
Monday, July 5, 2010 Since I had Monday off from work and Amanda had to work I decided to head down to the San Juans for a little day trip. My destination was part of the Alpine Loop and my goals were to find a few geocaches along the way and get a little hiking [...]
Independence Day Weekend in the Flat Tops
Posted: July 4, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Geocaching, JeepingTags: 2010, adams lake, bison lake, camp, coffee pot corral road, coffee pot road, colorado, deep creek, deep creek overlook, dotsero, flat tops, flat tops wilderness, glenwood springs, grizzly jeep trail, haypress lake, heart lake, jack springs road, jeep, no name canyon, ten mile park, transfer trail, windy point
Saturday & Sunday, July 3-4, 2010 This weekend Amanda and I headed up into the Flat Tops to explore an area we hadn’t been to yet. We started in Dotsero and headed up Coffee Pot Road, following a number of side roads to see where they went. We made a large loop that brought us [...]