Cool Pines and Aspen and us
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 12-06-2013
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Ok, I know you are growing tired of my pictures, but folks we had so much fun I need to share this with you. I promise I will quit bragging soon….well, before to much longer, after all I did forget a disk for my camera and we had to drive about 35 miles into Durango to get a disk so you could see this beautiful area, so you must have a quick look at them. I hope you like them. Our crew:
Number one grandson-in-law was the hardest fishing fisherman we had. He was getting skunked, so he got out early and stayed late, fishing hard all that time and it finally paid off. Here is his prize….nice fish, huh?
My number one son loved to be out on his Razor, well, this one was a friends as his was to large to fit in the back of his pickup. But, anyway, he had me on the darn thing, flying down a rocky trail suitable for two mile per hour travel…(maybe a slight exaggeration) but he came to a quick stop and I wondered what was in front of us….I soon found out as I staggered from the rough ride. In front of us was a drop off of several thousand feet, ok, fifty or 100 for sure. Had we gone over, I think they would have just left us. Looking back, it was fun, while I was riding, pure fright…. Thanks number one…it was quite a ride…
Pines, mainly, in the San Juan National Forest near Lake Vallecito.
That’s all the pictures for this week folks…Now, next week, its according to how this old feeble brain operates, I mean, if I can think of something to write about, I’ll write…..If not, er, maybe some more pictures….I have several good ones left…Come back to see us, ok? Thanks, Pete
Finally! Some trees! The aspen and the ponderoza would make Zane Grey proud. At least, a few survived the fires and the drought of Colorado. I wonder if there will be any left thirty years from now. I suppose this hasn’t been the first drought the Colorado Rockies have suffered in the past two million years. Maybe they will survive this one. I use to think that water in the Rockies was as eternal as the mountains since most of it came in the form of the snow pack every year. Hope so anyway! When we were in Park City, Utah, we were told that they had received about 70 inches this past winter when they ususally get about 150 inches.
There is a burn area in the San Juan Mt. also, but many trees remain. There are pictures of Aspen as well, though I have not posted them yet. Vallecito Lake was down about 15 or 20 feet per the owner, but it was still rising this year as all the snow melt had not occurred. However, he did not expect a lot more water and soon they will have to turn some lose for the Ute Reservation farmers.