Saturday, June 30, 2012 At 14,309 feet, Uncompahgre Peak is the highest point in the San Juan Mountains and the 6th highest in Colorado. It was also our destination this morning. After work on Friday, Jackson and I loaded up my Jeep and headed south to the San Juan’s. We made a quick stop for [...]
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Uncompahgre Peak
Posted: June 30, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, MountaineeringTags: 14ers, 2012, big blue creek, butterfly, colorado, engineer pass, lake city, marmot, matterhorn creek, matterhorn peak, nellie creek, peak bagging, san juan mountains, smoke, summit, uncompahgre peak, uncompahgre wilderness, wetterhorn peak, wildlife
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Shavano Valley Petroglyph Park
Posted: June 23, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, bear dance, bear dance panel, colorado, historic inscriptions, lichen, montrose, petroglyphs, rock art, shavano valley, shavano valley petroglyph park, uncompahgre plateau, ute, ute bear dance
Saturday, June 23, 2012 On Saturday I was invited by my friend Greg to visit the Shavano Valley Petroglyph Park near Montrose. I’ve been wanting to visit this site for quite a while, but never got around to getting permission to go, so I jumped at the opportunity. Amanda and I planned to head back [...]
Gray Copper Gulch
Posted: June 17, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, animas forks, bonita peak, brown mountain, california gulch, california pass, camp, camp bird road, cement creek, cement creek gulch, clouds, colorado, columbines, corkscrew gulch, corkscrew pass, fire ban, ghost towns, gilpin peak, gray copper gulch, hurricane pass, hurricane peak, jeep, lake como, mining history, ouray, poughkeepsie gulch, red mountains, reflection, san juan mountains, silverton, sunrise, sunset, tent, twin falls, uncompahgre national forest, uncompahgre river, velocity basin, waterfalls, wildflowers, wind, wrights lake, yankee boy basin
Saturday & Sunday, June 16-17, 2012 Amanda has been wanting to get back into the mountains for a while, so that’s where we went this weekend. Saturday morning we left the heat of the Grand Valley behind and drove up into the San Juan Mountains. Back in 2009 I visited an area called Gray Copper [...]
Cedar Mesa Ruins & Rock Art
Posted: June 10, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, archaeography, armstrong canyon, bigfoot ruins, bighorn ruins, caprock ruin, cave towers, cedar mesa, cedar point, collapsed roof ruin, golden granary, granary, mule canyon, mule canyon towers, natural bridges national monument, perfect granary, petroglyphs, pictographs, potsherds, red bear panel, red sheep ruins, remnant ruin, rock art, ruins, seven towers, shoe rock, shoe rock panel, shoe rock ruins, spiral, sunset, tiny granary, tuwa canyon, utah
Friday – Sunday, June 8-10, 2012 This weekend I met my friend Philippe and his wife on their annual trip to the Southwest from France. This year we planned a day to do a little hiking and exploring on Cedar Mesa (Last year we spent a day hiking in the San Rafael Swell). We spent [...]
Transit of Venus & Partial Lunar Eclipse
Posted: June 5, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in PhotographingTags: 2012, astronomy, colorado, colorado river, eagle rim park, grand junction, grand valley, lunar eclipse, moon, night, strawberry moon, sun, sunspots, transit of venus, venus
Monday & Tuesday, June 4-5, 2012 This isn’t the normal kind of ‘trip report’ I post on this website, but I figured since the Transit of Venus will not happen again in my lifetime I would post up a few photos of it here since I spent some time trying to take photos the event. [...]
Crystal & Lead King Basin
Posted: June 2, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, carbondale, colorado, crystal city, crystal mill, crystal power house, crystal river, elk mountains, geneva lake, jeep, lead king basin, lizard lake, marble, maroon bells - snowmass wilderness, mcclure pass, reflection, sheep mountain, silver creek, storm
Saturday, June 2, 2012 Today I decided to take a day trip up to the Elk Mountains near Crystal and Lead King Basin. I had heard that most of the back-roads up there were opening up (earlier than usual) and I hadn’t been up that way in a few years, so I thought it would [...]