October 3rd I headed up Blanco basin road for some reason in the six years I have lived here I have never been up this road.  I leads up behind square to a major mountain you see from all over town to this gorgeous secret little valley.  The valley is all privately owned but surrounded by forest service lands.  To the east are the peaks of the continental divide that are part of the southern San Juan Wilderness. the back side of square top is on the other side and the valley runs up to big mountains to the north so it forms a U at the top.  Every direction is beautiful!

There were nasty chemtrails all day but I headed out anyway and asked for some piece of the sky to be cleared and trusted my intuition to tell me where to go.  I did get some blue skies at the beginning the slowed faded to the disgusting chemtrail haze.

 

first you start going around square top

 

 

 

You go up over a big hill then start to come down into the basin this one is part way down.

 

 

 

When you get into the basin you meet the Blanco River

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were lots of trees in the area that had not turned yet which surprised me based on how the colors were in the upper Piedra and Wolf Creek areas.

 

 

 

I can upon this ranch entrance that I thought was interesting

 

 

 

 

 

 

A nice little pond, this place I noticed was actually for sale.  Just a mere 1.3 million, it has river frontage though and 40 acres or so.

 

 

 

 

 

After going up to the end of the valley I went back and cut off on a forest service road.  There was a  fox there waiting for me but he didn’t hang out long enough to get his photo taken.  The aspens up there were brilliant, but the sky was whiting out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panoramas

 

Square Top

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Divide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Blanco river

 

 

 

 

The river valley