Saturday & Sunday, June 23-24, 2012 After spending a few hours in the morning at the Shavano Valley Petroglyph Park near Montrose, we continued driving into the San Juan Mountains to get out of the heat for the weekend. Shortly after crossing over Red Mountain Pass we turned down the road along the South Fork [...]
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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 [...]
Random Photos from the Last Two Weeks
Posted: August 11, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, TouringTags: 2010, animas forks, arches, bear creek trail, california pass, cascade falls, clouds, colorado, colorado national monument, colorado river, corkscrew trail, durango silverton narrow gauge, grand junction, grand mesa, hells revenge, hole n the rock, hurricane pass, jeep, la sal mountains, lake como, land o lakes, lands end, lands end road, liberty cap, million dollar highway, moab, ouray, red mountains, san juan mountains, sand flats, sand flats recreation area, silverton, silverton loop, sunset, train, uncompahgre plateau, utah, ute canyon, waterfalls, wilson arch
August 7, 8, 10, 11, 2010 Amanda’s mom and sister spent the last two weeks with us here in Grand Junction. While they were here we spent some time showing them around not only here, but also in Moab, Silverton and Ouray….to name a few places. Here’s some random photos I took while we were [...]
Back into the San Juans
Posted: June 19, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, american basin, animas forks, animas river, cascade falls, cinnamon pass, colorado, duncan residence, ghost towns, jeep, longfellow mine, million dollar highway, mining history, ouray, picayune gulch, red mountain creek, red mountain mining district, red mountain pass, red mountains, san juan mountains, san juan triangle, silverton, waterfalls, yankee girl
Saturday, June 19, 2010 Well, it’s just about that time of the year again. It’s the part of the year that I start transitioning away from the deserts of Southern Utah and start to concentrate on the mountains of Colorado. The last time I was up in the San Juans was when I went snowshoeing [...]
Snowshoeing the Red Mountain Mining Area
Posted: January 30, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, SnowshoeingTags: 2010, colorado, jeep, mining history, ouray, red mountain mining district, red mountains, san juan mountains, snow
Saturday, January 30, 2010 Amanda and I decided to take my new JK down to Ouray today so that I could do some snowshoeing and so that we could check out the mountains this winter. Our first stop just above Ouray A few miles before reaching Red Mountain Pass, we pulled off the highway at [...]
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 [...]
Day Trip to the San Juan’s
Posted: September 6, 2008 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2008, brooklyn mine, brown mountain, browns gulch, cabin, california pass, colorado, corkscrew gulch, corkscrew pass, hurricane pass, ironton park, jeep, lake como, mines, mining history, porphyry basin, poughkeepsie gulch, red mountains, san juan mountains, silver mountain mine, uncompahgre river, us basin
Saturday, September 6, 2008 On Saturday Amanda and I headed out for a day trip to the San Juan Mountains. We drove there, ran a few trails, and drove home on one tank of gas….so that wasn’t too bad. We started off by heading up Poughkeepsie Gulch Lake Como After spending a little time at [...]