Colorado
Blog Posts from Colorado
Photos from Northern Colorado
Arriving in Denver
Another nice sunrise at Planet Fitness- Loveland Ski resort
- Hiding in the trees
- This was the view from the beginner area
- Great day for skiing
- Chairlift twofie
- View of the continental divide
- I70 Tunnel under the ski resort
- Chair lift up to the top
- On top of the continental divide, 12000 feet
- Time to ski back down, extreme difficulty, I only fell once
- Ptarmigan Roost at the top of the tree line
- Great views of Loveland Valley
- I was up there at the top!
- Final run of the day
- A really great experience skiing in the Colorado Rockies
- Driving on I70, the ski resort was on the other side of that mountain on the right
- We earned this blooming onion
- Driving into Rocky Mountain National Park
- Trail to the frozen lakes
- Good thing we have our microspikes
- Amazing vies along the trail
- Dream lake, frozen over
- Had great weather for this hike
- Standing on Emerald lake
- We really enjoyed the Rocky Mountains
- Hopefully this is the last snowy picture of the trip
- Washing the car on our day off
- Dodging tumbleweeds on the way to Kansas
Photos from Southern Colorado
- First overlook of the canyon and cliffs at Mesa Verde National Park
- Very cold here this morning
- Cliff Palace
- 800 year old city
- Mancos Valley Overlook
- Nice view of some distant rocky mountains
- Driving up the San Juan Skyway
- Heading to Telluride
- Yikes, glad the weather was alright today
- Mountain Village and Telluride Ski Resort
- Riding the free gondala
- Wow wow wow
- Awesome view of Telluride and the San Juan Rockies
- Gondala twofie
- Very nice (and rich) area
- Ouray, a lovely little mountain village
- Impressive mountains surrounding Ouray
- I’ve never been to switzerland but this seems about right
- Driving the million dollar highway
- Thankfully the road isn’t icy
- Funky avalanche tunnel
- Playing in the snow, good thing the car is nice and warm
- Very scenic trees with fresh snow
- Silverton, another small town and historic mining area
- One of several mountain passes we drove through
- Just a nice river in Durango
- Chillaxing at a cheap resort in Pagosa Springs
- Making dinner in a real kitchen!
- Pagosa Springs natural hot springs
- Too cold to go for a swim
- Fourth and final crossing of the continental divide
- Wolf Creek Pass
- Driving to Great Sand Dune National Park
- Hiking the dunes
- We are going all the way up
- Nice views of the snowy Sangre de Cristo Mountains
- A little exhausting hiking all the way up here
- So much sand
- Time to head back down
- Tiny Shelby
- Tiny Spencer
Photos from Grand Junction
- Checking out Colorado National Monument
- One of the tunnesl on the crazy rimrock drive
- Very impressive road up into the canyon
- Walking the canyon rim trail
- Weather was decent, sunny with a chilly breeze
- Impressive trail right along the cliff
- Monument valley
- Don’t fall
- Independence monument, and the grand junction valley
- Grand view overlook
- Highland view overlook
- The not so grand canyon
- Making dinnerat the Devil’s Kitchen picnic area
- Burgers and dogs over charcoal
- Obligatory working picture for the blog
- Trivia at Handlebar Taphouse
- We really liked this library
TRIP STATS
Days Traveling: 365
Miles Driven: 34500
Average MPG: 37.6
States Visited: 48
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