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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Alpine Loop, Ophir Pass & Last Dollar Road
Posted: July 3, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2011, alpine loop, animas forks, animas river, carson, cinnamon pass, colorado, continental divide, cottonwood creek, darley mountain, duncan residence, engineer pass, ghost towns, jeep, lake city, lake san cristobal, last dollar road, mineral creek, mineral point, moose, mountains, north fork of henson creek, ophir pass, ouray, palmetto gulch, paradise basin, poughkeepsie gulch, ridgway, san juan mouontains, silverton, telluride, uncompahgre river, wager gulch, waterfalls, whitmore falls
Saturday & Sunday, July 2-3, 2011 Amanda had to work on the Fourth of July Weekend so I was on my own to find something to do. It was getting pretty hot in the desert, so I decided to take a break from searching for rock art and head up into the mountains. There weren’t [...]
The Great Sand Dunes
Posted: May 2, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2010, alamosa, castle creek, clouds, colorado, creede, dune field, great sand dunes, great sand dunes national park, high dune, ice, lake city, medano creek, medano pass, montville nature trail, mosca creek, mount herard, north clear creek falls, rocky mountain bighorn sheep, sand dunes, sangre de cristo mountains, storm, sunset, waterfalls, wildlife, zapata falls
Friday – Sunday, April 30 – May 2, 2010 This last Thursday was Amanda’s birthday, so she got to choose where we went last weekend. After getting a taste of The Great Sand Dunes last August, she wanted to head back while Medano Creek was flowing. Since she ended up having Friday off from work, [...]
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 [...]
Independence Day in the San Juan’s
Posted: July 4, 2008 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, JeepingTags: 2008, alpine loop, animas forks, animas forks road, bonanza empire chief, capitol city, cinnamon pass, clear lake, colorado, engineer pass, fireworks, ghost towns, henson creek, independence day, jeep, lake city, mickey breen mine, mineral creek, mines, mining history, ouray, san juan mountains, silverton, south fork of mineral creek, uncompahgre river, waterfalls, whitmore falls
Independence Day | Friday, July 4, 2008 This year we decided to spend our holiday weekend in the San Juan Mountains. We left Thursday after work and made our camp along Mineral Creek a few miles north of Silverton. After getting a good nights sleep, we got an early start on Independence Day and made [...]
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 [...]
Pitkin to Silverton
Posted: July 22, 2007 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, JeepingTags: 2007, animas forks road, black sage pass, clouds, colorado, cunningham gulch, doyleville, fog, gunnison, intrepidxpedition, jeep, lake city, los pinos pass, middle quartz creek, monarch, old monarch pass, pitkin, poncha springs, rain, rio grande, rio grande reservoir, salida, san juan mountains, sawatch range, silverton, stony pass, sunrise, tomichi dome, waunita pass
IntrepidXpedition 2007 | Day 4 Sunday, July 22, 2007 The following morning I started out with a quick drive on US 50 from Monarch, CO to reach the start of Old Monarch Pass. My final destination at the end of the day will be Silverton, CO and I will be getting there by barely touching [...]