Tuesday, July 11, 2006
The Tuesday late Post for Wednesday's Edition
And the late Wednesday update. These were posted yesterday for ya'll to see and be texted today. We spent most of yesterday getting to the places to get the pics.
Look at the above closeup and find the highway and the car. This is the road to Wolf Creek Pass from Pagosa Springs. We are on one of the switch backs and will have another at the bottom of this section. The pass is at the top of this rise above us. Most of the road is 7% on this side and 3 lanes with shoulder. There are two runaway's if needed.
This is Treasure Falls at the base of the road to Wolf Creek Pass. The falls is a good 200 yards away with a path to get there, but it was closed. This is a close up that is cropped to get a better close up of the falls. This is the only one seen from the highway.
And this is Silver Falls. This is a 8 mile trip from Pagosa Springs and then another 8 mile out the gravel road thru the woods, over two or three creek crossings, 2 miles down the ranchers road to the cabin in the woods. Yep, all true. The falls is 1/8 mile, 661 feet or 220 yards thru the woods and also up the mountain side. The trail we were to follow was very difficult to follow. Smetimes it was a matter of which one you wanted to follow. The shot above was from the road and cropped to get the pic above. I wished I had taken the pic of the bear claw markes on the tree.
And here we have the top of the pass with the signs telling about the road and the Continential Divide. Yep, we were where the water sheds east and west. The bronze strip under the bicycle is the divide. That lady in blue is still following me and watching the folks. But aint she cute.
There is more to see if you have a high center, 4 wheel drive. And on the stretch to Silver Falls, go on further and go up the high angle unimproved road to the cascades.
More as we can get there. Would like to go to Durango, the casino, maybe to Creede and other places. Remember, we are at 7103 1t the park, the golf course in town is at 7500+ there is rolling hills all around. The roads are improved by road grader and are gravel. Speed is slow at best and slower when wet. With the afternoon rains, we passed on some of the trips. It rained this morning but not this afternoon.
Tomorrow its to the driving range with my neighbor Pete from Texas and try to see what I can do at 7500 feet. I hope I can breath.
Temp: 72, dont ya just hate me!
Look at the above closeup and find the highway and the car. This is the road to Wolf Creek Pass from Pagosa Springs. We are on one of the switch backs and will have another at the bottom of this section. The pass is at the top of this rise above us. Most of the road is 7% on this side and 3 lanes with shoulder. There are two runaway's if needed.
This is Treasure Falls at the base of the road to Wolf Creek Pass. The falls is a good 200 yards away with a path to get there, but it was closed. This is a close up that is cropped to get a better close up of the falls. This is the only one seen from the highway.
And this is Silver Falls. This is a 8 mile trip from Pagosa Springs and then another 8 mile out the gravel road thru the woods, over two or three creek crossings, 2 miles down the ranchers road to the cabin in the woods. Yep, all true. The falls is 1/8 mile, 661 feet or 220 yards thru the woods and also up the mountain side. The trail we were to follow was very difficult to follow. Smetimes it was a matter of which one you wanted to follow. The shot above was from the road and cropped to get the pic above. I wished I had taken the pic of the bear claw markes on the tree.
And here we have the top of the pass with the signs telling about the road and the Continential Divide. Yep, we were where the water sheds east and west. The bronze strip under the bicycle is the divide. That lady in blue is still following me and watching the folks. But aint she cute.
There is more to see if you have a high center, 4 wheel drive. And on the stretch to Silver Falls, go on further and go up the high angle unimproved road to the cascades.
More as we can get there. Would like to go to Durango, the casino, maybe to Creede and other places. Remember, we are at 7103 1t the park, the golf course in town is at 7500+ there is rolling hills all around. The roads are improved by road grader and are gravel. Speed is slow at best and slower when wet. With the afternoon rains, we passed on some of the trips. It rained this morning but not this afternoon.
Tomorrow its to the driving range with my neighbor Pete from Texas and try to see what I can do at 7500 feet. I hope I can breath.
Temp: 72, dont ya just hate me!
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one is about 200 yards away and the path was closed. The other was 1/8 mile and the path was difficult to follow. Both were long range shots and the pics cropped to get what you see.
The other is Wolf Creek Pass.
R
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The other is Wolf Creek Pass.
R
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