Sunday – Tuesday, July 29-31, 2012 Since the afternoon monsoons were still around this week, I headed out a few evenings to try and take some more photos during sunset. On Sunday evening, after returning home from the Paradise Divide, I left again and went to a new area in the Colorado National Monument. It [...]
Archive for July, 2012
More Monument Sunsets
Posted: July 31, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, book cliffs, clouds, colorado, colorado national monument, devils point, east entrance canyon, fruita, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, grand valley ohv area, jeep, monsoon, moon, mount garfield, rainbow, reflection, rim rock drive, road, sunset, tunnel, uncompahgre plateau
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Paradise Divide
Posted: July 29, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, Mountaineering, PhotographingTags: 12ers, 2012, aspens, cinnamon mountain, clouds, colorado, crested butte, east beckwith mountain, elk mountains, ferns, gothic, gothic road, jeep, kebler pass, mine shaft, mount baldy, mount emmons, paonia, paradise basin, paradise divide, peak bagging, purple mountain, rainbow, red lady, reflection, ruby range, schofield pass, slate river, slate river road, slate river valley, summit, sunrise, sunset, tent, treasury mountain, yule pass
Saturday & Sunday, July 28-29, 2012 On Saturday morning, Amanda and I took a leisurely drive over Kebler Pass to spend a nice and relaxed weekend in the Elk Mountains just outside of Crested Butte. On our way, I stopped a few times along Kebler Pass to take photos of the many aspen trees found [...]
Monument & Juniata Sunsets
Posted: July 27, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in PhotographingTags: 2012, book cliffs, book cliffs view, clouds, colorado, colorado national monument, fruita, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, independence monument, juniata reservoir, kissing couple, monsoon, monument canyon, mount garfield, ottos trail, pothole point, rain, rainbow, sentinel spire, storm, sunset, uncompahgre plateau, wedding canyon
Monday, Tuesday & Friday, July 23,24 & 27, 2012 Since the monsoon season here on the western slope of Colorado is in full effect, I went out to photograph a couple of sunsets this week after work. On Monday I drove up to the Colorado National Monument right after some heavy rain had passed through [...]
Grays & Torreys Peaks
Posted: July 21, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, MountaineeringTags: 13ers, 14ers, 2012, alpenglow, argentine pass, boreas pass, camp, chihuahua gulch, clouds, colorado, continental divide, continental divide trail, fourteeners, front range, georgetown, grays peak, guanella pass, horseshoe basin, jeep, kelso mountain, lightning, mcclellan mountain, mount bierstadt, mount evans, peak bagging, peru creek, rain, ruby mountain, stevens gulch, storm, summit, sunrise, tent, the sawtooth, torreys peak, waldorf mine, waldorf road
Saturday, July 21, 2012 I left work at 11:00am on Friday, finished loading up the Jeep and made my way east on I-70 to the Front Range. One of my personal goals for the year was to hike to the top of three 14ers, so I decided to try and hike the Grays Peak and [...]
Basin Wildflower Tour
Posted: July 7, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, alpine fireweed, black bear pass, bullion king lake, bullion king mine, camp bird road, clouds, colorado, columbines, comely daisy, cow parsnip, elephantheads, governor basin, jeep, mcmillan peak, mineral basin, mines, mining history, mountain top mine, ouray, parrys primrose, porphyry basin, porphyry creek, porphyry gulch, potosi peak, rain, rainbow, red mountain, red mountain pass, richardsons geranium, rose paintbrush, saint sophia ridge, san juan mountains, sidney basin, sydney basin, virginius mine, waterfalls, wildflowers, yankee boy basin
Saturday, July 7, 2012 This weekend we left home on Saturday morning and headed back up into the San Juan Mountains. I had received reports that the wildflowers were in full swing a few weeks early because of our dismal snowpack and dry spring, and I wanted to try and get some photos of them. [...]
Independence Day in Glenwood Canyon
Posted: July 4, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Paddling, RaftingTags: 2012, colorado, colorado river, ducky, glenwood canyon, glenwood springs, grizzly creek, independence day, inflatable kayak, no name, roaring fork, south canyon
Grizzly Creek to South Canyon Independence Day | Wednesday, July 4, 2012 This past weekend when Jackson and I were hiking up Uncompahgre Peak he suggested that we take our boats to Glenwood Canyon for the 4th of July, and I thought that sounded like an excellent idea…so we did. We decided to put in [...]