Mike's Blog: October 2004

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Snowy Town Park

Up the gondola I go

Friday, October 22, 2004

Friday morning snow storm

The snow came down hard, now it has stopped and we are left with a coating of white.
Yippee!!!

Let it snow!!!

3 inches in about 45 minutes

Mr and Mrs Pumpkin

Thursday Evening hike on the Jud Wiebe

My ski conditioning class has been full of late, so I decided to get some excercise on the Jud Wiebe trail. (why would I go to a class, where she is screaming at me, when I could enjoy sites like this. :) )

Very crisp, damp and relaxing...

One of the last displays of aspens

Top of chair 9 (Plunge). Runs include Bushwacker, Kant-Mak-M, Mammoth, Joint Point, Lookout

View of the box canyon from the Jud

Evening walk among the tall giants

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Bear Creek Falls

Wendy and I went up to Bear Creek falls today. It was a nice cool autumn day.

Here is what http://www.tellurideofficialguide.com/activities/hiking.html has to say about the trip:
"Bear Creek Falls & CanyonEasy/Moderate, approximately 2.2 miles to the falls. Very popular short hike from Pine Street in town. Ride or hike approximately 2 miles up Bear Creek. The road ends at a huge boulder. Follow a trail for the next .25 miles up to the bottom of the waterfall...."

Bear Creek Falls

Fallen Leaves

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Think you can't draw, Think again.

I am taking a drawing class at the Ah Haa http://www.ahhaa.org/ here in Telluride. It is called "Think you can't draw, Think again.

I promise I won't keep publish all my drawings, (not all that exciting) but this was from the first day, and I just wanted to share.

Drawing from 1st day at "Think you can't draw, Think again." class. I have lots of room for improvement, but it is a lot of fun.

Just doing a little practicing at home with my tea kettle.

Early morning storm

After the storm

Early morning storm

Sunday, October 10, 2004

Wonderful adventure to Grand Junction

Saturday I wanted to go to Grand Junction to by frames etc. My friend told me that Woods Lake was pretty, so I thought I would make a scenic detour there. Turns out that this detour took all day and was incredible.

Started out in Telluride and left town Highway 145 as I normally do. Ad Vanadium, I turned left up road 622 toward Silver Pick Basin. I then turned right toward Wilsons Mesa and did the Wilsons Mesa Circle. From there I went up road 618 towards Woods Lake. It is a fair bit past peak aspen viewing but Woods Lake is very pretty. From there I took FS 618. A lot of my favorite photos came from that road. This drops down into Lone Cone and I took FS 611, then FS 610 toward Norwood. I can't wait until next year to come back during peak.

The second part of the trip was highway 145 and highway 141 thru towns like Norwood, Redvale, Naturita, Uravan, Gateway and Whitewater. It starts out following the San Miquel river, then joins the Dolores river where it flows thru inspiring canyons. At Gateway, I head back east up the Unaweep cayon on highway 141 where it drops down into Whitewater and Grand Junction.

After spending way too much money at Michaels in Grand Junction I headed back south. Stopped in Montrose to pick up some groceries and headed home.

Make sure you check out the incredible red aspens they where something else.