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We once lived near Sawpit, Co, about 15 miles down the canyon from Telluride. In the fall on 1996 I had an architectural design firm in Telluride, and on this bright sunny morning I had an important meeting in town at 9:30 am. At 7:30am I discovered that the only road into Telluride along the...

Saturday, July 7, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO This weekend we left home on Saturday morning and headed back up into the San Juan Mountains. I had received reports that the wildflowers were in full swing a few weeks early because of our dismal snowpack and dry spring, and I...

Saturday, June 30, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO 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...

Saturday & Sunday, June 23-24, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO 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...

Saturday & Sunday, June 16-17, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO 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...

Saturday, June 2, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO Today I decided to take a day trip up to the Elk Mountains near Crystal and Lead King Basin. I had heard that most of the back-roads up there were opening up (earlier than usual) and I hadn't been up that way in a few years, so I...

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO It’s been awhile since I’ve hiked to the arches in Rattlesnake Canyon and I have wanted to return again so that I could try and get some better photos of them. I figured that sunset would probably be the best time to go, and that I...

Thursday, April 19, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO The clouds in the sky this evening were looking pretty nice, so I decided to drive up to the Monument to hopefully catch a nice colorful sunset. I didn’t get the spectacular sunset I was hoping for, but I did end up with with a...

Sunday, April 15, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After spending the previous day at Rifle Falls with Amanda we decided to spend Sunday morning taking a hike we have wanted to do for a while in in the Colorado National Monument. The last time we had planned to hike the Black Rdge...

Saturday, April 14, 2012 The Original Trip report on ADVENTR.CO Since Amanda was off this weekend, I let her decide where we would be going on Saturday. She chose Rifle Falls State Park since neither of us had been there before and it's a place we have both wanted to visit. We have driven...

Every Spring we take a family trip down south(Utah) somewhere. My wife usually has the most influence in destination and this year she wanted to go to Mesa Verde. She had never been and it had been about 15yrs since I had been. We decided to stop in Moab on the way down and hike a canyon to...

How about we cool this section down with a trip report about snowshoeing in the Rockies since everyone else is posting desert trips, :p. This past weekend Chere, myself, Erin, Kamlyn, Janet and Kristin all snowshoed/hiked up to the Fritz Cabin in the Benedict section of The 10th Mountain Hut...

Sunday, November 27, 2011 After spending the last two days exploring Utah, I decided to stay close to home on Sunday. I have wanted to revisit the petroglyph panels in Big Dominguez Canyon, so I headed over to Bridgeport in the morning and started hiking. I had a later start than usual and...

Christmas Eve | Saturday, December 24, 2011 Since Amanda had to work this morning, I decided to head up on the Grand Mesa to do a little snowshoeing. I bought a new pair of snowshoes and some new poles a few months back and wanted to try them out. Since I was testing out new gear and only...

Sunday, January 8, 2012 On Sunday, Amanda and I headed down to watch the ice climbers at the Ouray Ice Festival. We have always wanted to go check it out, so it was nice to finally make it down there. I'm not a climber of any sorts (and have no interest in starting), but it was definitely...

Greetings again, as the adventure stalls out in the snow. The plan for our second day at the Ouray Jeep Jamboree was to head up into Yankee Boy Basin and Governor Basin. This rocky overhang is on the easy section of the road leading out of Ouray. Quite a storm had blown through Ouray the...

The Great Western Expedition of 2011 capped off with Day One of the 24th Annual Ouray Jeep Jamboree. There were several trail options available to us: Imogene/Ophir, Imogene/Last Dollar Road, Yankee Boy Basin, Mineral Point/Corkscrew Pass, and Poughkeepsie Gulch. We signed up for Poughkeepsie...

Time again for yet another episode of "As the Duratrac Turns"... Today, we head for the notorious Black Bear Pass. The Jeep Jamboree doesn't officially run BBP because of its reputation and difficulty. The Ouray JJ Coordinatior, Chris Timmes, runs it with his trail leaders a day or two before...

And the adventure continues... From Cortez, we headed into Durango, then north on US 550 to Silverton. We made it to the overlook just as one of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad steam engines was pulling out of town. In the summer, they run up to three trains a day from...