Mountain - Plains - Mountain Photo Thread

Bighorns and Longs Peak

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Silhouette near Cameron Pass.....

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Nokhu Crags near Walden, Colorado.

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Thought I'd start sharing some fall colors....this one is along the Arkansas River near Fremont Pass:

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^Nice. Here's a couple from Sunday's hike to Lake Isabel.

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I like the multi-colored brush :thumb: Probably covered in snow right now. Here's another shot from St. Elmo area:

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Just a few "point and shoots" from the Western Slope while riding in the Monument the last couple days.

Fruita Canyon Climb
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A Big Horn near the top.

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Cycling along the Rim Drive

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........and the descent on the Junction side.

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The autumn weather has been ....so nice.

Love the snapshots, Sagebum. I grew up in that area, so it's esp. nice for me to revisit. Speaking of that area....here's a shot I took this weekend from Grand Mesa:

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ccdrider...I think we missed the peak of aspen colors by a week but your pics make the most of anything.

We have lived here part time for a very long time and always enjoy it all.

Monday I rode from Cedaredge over to Powderhorn and back. The Aspens were well past but the Oaks were starting to peak.

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One of my favorite spots on the Mesa side near the top.

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Well we leave Saturday, may be back in November.....with a little snow and clouds the Monument can be very pretty then too.

Cool shots.....love the Mesa! It's such an amazing place that only the locals really are aware of.....it's hard to imagine 300 lakes up there! Here's another shot from a small pond off one of the many dirt roads in the area:

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And then here's another very colorful shot from the area between Collbran and Silt.....one of the reasons they call it Colorful Colorado!:

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Not technically a "mountain". It's really a giant hole in the ground but here's from Sublime Point on the north rim of the Grand Canyon

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Not technically a "mountain". It's really a giant hole in the ground but here's from Sublime Point on the north rim of the Grand Canyon



Close enough. It's mountainous like terrain, so it qualifies. Sublime is a good word. :thumb:

Another shot from a recent fall colors tour....Sneffels Range panorama:

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Just amazing!! Thanks for sharing and reminding me to get away from the desk.

Close enough. It's mountainous like terrain, so it qualifies. Sublime is a good word. :thumb:

It's a 20 mile (one way) mountain ride from the North Rim Campground. You can camp right on the point (which is how I got the moonset pictures;)) with a back country pass. No one was out there that night.

McClure Pass between Carbondale and Paonia:

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Continuing in my vein of holes in the ground, here are pictures from a trip to the Picketwire Dinosaur trackway (http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/psicc/coma/main/picketwireguide.shtml) in southeastern Colorado

Purgatory River Canyon (aka Picketwire Canyon)
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Petroglyphs along the trail. This is one of about 5 horned lizard features at this site
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The reason I go down there. Sauropod tracks (likely apatosaurs) from 150 million years ago. A nice day on the beach. There are several parallel tracks to these two sets indicating herding behavior.
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Coming down one of two climbs in the canyon. The last one (back to camp is a killer:eek:)
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Just to show that there are no mountains out here
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An American Pronghorn doe from the above picture. She was scooting along at about 40 mph at this point.

This one is pretty weird. This particular angle of a shot at sunrise makes the rock on the right appear to be a face. As far as I know there is no mention of this in any guidebook nor have I seen anyone else take a photo from this vantage point. This is looking northeast toward the Mummy Range from Rock Cut on Trail Ridge Road.

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Frying Pan River near Basalt, Colorado:

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McClure Pass between Carbondale and Paonia:

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Magnifique!!!

A perfect place to reflect:

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I call this shot "The Maze":

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Here's a close up of how thick the aspen boles are in this area of southern Colorado:

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Turquoise Lake from Hagerman Pass, Sawatch Range....central Colorado.

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Another shot of the Frying Pan River....

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Nice shots again. I love to fish the Pan.

Noticed this thread was on the second page.....wanted to get it going again. Here's one of my favorite spots on the Fall River in Rocky Mt. Natl. Park:

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This thread is warming my heart on a fairly brutal winter day.

Great pictures... Beautiful...

I recently posted some Colorado shots on my website's photo page (http://www.industrializedcyclist.com/photos.html). Some of them are pretty nice.

This thread is warming my heart on a fairly brutal winter day.

Great pictures... Beautiful...

I recently posted some Colorado shots on my website's photo page (http://www.industrializedcyclist.com/photos.html). Some of them are pretty nice.

Very cool photos, Robert! It would be nice if you posted a few right here in the thread......maybe give a few details on each photo? For example, I recognized your first shot...."pings-horns".....as the Wetterhorn, Matterhorn, and Uncompahgre area near Lake City. It would be interesting to know from what vantage point you took the shot (if you recall). Just a suggestion.....thanks for sharing regardless. :thumb:

Not the typical Colorado high country pic but great riding anyway.

Reeder Mesa Rd. just south of Grand Junction on a very cold day a week or so ago.

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Sagebum, I don't see a photo in your post.

Hmmmm....it was there last night. I'll try again.

PS

The problem seems to be with my host again as my....... dot com ........is not available at all. Every year in Dec. when they are suppose to auto-magically renew my domain name, I lose service until I contact them and get it straight. Time for a new host maybe.

Very cool photos, Robert! It would be nice if you posted a few right here in the thread......maybe give a few details on each photo? For example, I recognized your first shot...."pings-horns".....as the Wetterhorn, Matterhorn, and Uncompahgre area near Lake City. It would be interesting to know from what vantage point you took the shot (if you recall). Just a suggestion.....thanks for sharing regardless. :thumb:

Thanks ccd. Your photos are awesome. That horns shot was taken by my friend Robert Reid, unfortunately I wasn't there when he took it. He also took this one:

http://www.industrializedcyclist.com/pings_wheeler.jpg


That was taken just below Wheeler Pass on the Copper Mtn. side after waiting out a lightning storm under a rock on the other side.

My wife C. took this one before the storm hit:


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I snapped this one above Schofield Pass outside Crested Butte:


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And this one is up on Mt. Crested Butte itself:


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Robert

Very much enjoyed the MTB pics especially of Crested Butte. The trail above Schofield must be Trail 409? So nice. Here is another of CB from the Snodgrass Trail.

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....and the Snodgrass Trail.

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Great Sand Dunes National Park

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Those rocks are interesting, especially the outcropping in the middle -- what's w/ the rust colored striations? Can't be iron, perhaps moss of some sort? Also, looks like there's a steep drop-off about 50-80 yds. in the distance -- interesting.

The rust colored things are either fungus or lichen (a symbiotic life form made of fungus and algae).

From where the mountains come up from the sea, and where the cycling is superb. The Oregon coast.

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