Three Days in Colorado
On the Highway
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Denver suburbs

Floodplain, sagebrush, spruces, and eternal snow

Sage leaves

Sagebrush slope

The three dents

Rocky sagebrush slope

Sage at a mountain riverside

Spruces descending toward sagebrush

Twin Lakes: sagebrush on the lake shore

Twin Lakes: ponderosa pine mixing with sagebrush

Mountain slopes coming closer

Steep slopes along Rt. 70

View of slope with tunnel

Tunnel

In the tunnel

Rt. 70 storming mountain slopes near Silver Plume

A highway view

Disgrace to the landscape

Dying forest

Spruces killed by unknown agent

Crime and Punishment

Mining ghost town

Mining ghost town

Mining ghost town

We could even add to these artifacts...

Ghost interpreter on site!

View near Independence Pass

Slopes near Independence Pass

Spruce forest along Rt. 82

Spruces climbing into tundra

Mountain tundra at Independence Pass, the Continental Divide

First glimpses of aspens

On the way back: warning to truckers