Fall Colors 2012 Saturday & Sunday, September 15-16, 2012 On Saturday morning Amanda and I got in the Jeep and drove south to the San Juan Mountains again. This weekend I was hoping to find some early fall color and had heard a few reports that there were already some nice colors around Red Mountain [...]
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Chasing Fall Colors
Posted: September 16, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, animas forks, aspens, bear scratches, california gulch, california pass, camp, colorado, corkscrew gulch, corkscrew pass, deadwood falls, deadwood gulch, duncan residence, durango silverton narrow gauge, fall colors, ghost towns, hurricane pass, ironton, ironton park, jeep, lake como, little molas lake, mining history, molas pass, mountain queen mine, ouray, portland mine, poughkeepsie gulch, red mountain mining district, red mountain pass, reflections, san juan mountains, silverton, south mineral creek, sunrise, tent, train, waterfalls, yankee girl
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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 [...]
Along Hurricane Pass
Posted: September 12, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, alaska basin, cabin, california gulch, california pass, cement creek, cement creek gulch, colorado, corkscrew gulch, corkscrew pass, eureka gulch, gladstone, gray copper gulch, hurricane pass, hurricane peak, jeep, lake como, lake emma, mining history, minniehaha basin, north fork gulch, poughkeepsie gulch, red mountains, san juan mountains, san juans
Saturday, September 12, 2009 On Saturday I headed to the San Juan’s for a day trip. My goal was to explore a few trails along the Hurricane Pass trail that I had not been down before. The weather wasn’t the best as the skies were full of clouds most of the day. I even had [...]
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 [...]
Fall Colors in the San Juan’s | Sunday
Posted: September 28, 2008 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, JeepingTags: 2008, animas forks, aspens, brown mountain, california gulch, california pass, cement creek, cement creek road, colorado, duncan residence, fall colors, frisco mine, ghost towns, gladstone, hurricane pass, hurricane peak, jeep, lake como, mineral creek, mineral point, mines, mining history, north fork cutoff, north fork of the animas river, poughkeepsie gulch, prospect gulch, red mountains, san juan mountains, silverton, uncompahgre river
Sunday, September 28, 2008 On Sunday morning we got up early and headed back through Silverton and up Cement Creek Road to Gladstone. From there, we headed up into Prospect Gulch. Headed up Red Mountain #3 from Prospect Gulch View down into Prospect Gulch Red Mountain #3 Next we headed back to Gladstone and took [...]
A Full Day in The San Juan Mountains
Posted: July 23, 2007 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, JeepingTags: 2007, alpine loop, animas forks, animas river, california gulch, california pass, camp, carson, cinnamon gulch, cinnamon pass, colorado, corkscrew gulch, corkscrew pass, darley mountain, duncan residence, empire chief mill, engineer pass, ghost towns, gold prince mine, hurricane pass, intrepidxpedition, jeep, lackawanna mill, lake city, lake como, mickey breen mine, mineral creek, mines, mining history, oh point, palmetto gulch, picayune gulch, placer gulch, red mountains, san juan mountains, silverton, tent, treasure mountain, uncompahgre river, wager gulch, waterfalls, whitmore falls
IntrepidXpedition 2007 | Day 5 Monday, July 23, 2007 I got up very early again this day and it was turning out to be a very nice day. My first goal of the day was to check out the Alpine Loop. I started out by making my way over to Engineer Pass. The trail starts [...]