I went back to the Upper Piedra on the 9th figuring the colors should be more advanced and they were.

Pagosa Peak on the way up along Piedra Road

 

 

 

There was a little coyote in the field

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Williams Lake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took the forest service road into the Weminuche Valley past the Williams Lake cutoff.  It is  a steep climb and a skinny road it was getting late and I was wondering if I would get some views as the trees next to the road were pretty thick.  When you first come into the valley you see this falling down

building.

 

 

 

 

 

From the Valley floor

 

 

 

First view from up the hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up top as far as I went was a real panoramic view this photo doesn’t do it justice.  I’m not sure what the elevation was there but high enough to really get my heart pumping when I wander up a little path to get this photo

 

 

 

 

Coming back down the hill the sun was hitting this lighter stripe of rock in this mountain and it really caught my eye

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking out over the valley again as the sun is getting really low in the sky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I got back down to the valley this cow was outside her fence, the night before there had been a who bunch outside the fence along Piedra on the way home.

 

 

 

On the we had a couple days of rain and it was supposed to be snow in the high country so when I got up on the 6th to blue skies I headed to the edge of the hill to see if the mountains were clouded in and if they had snow on them.  They were clear and beautiful.  I wish I could have taken off for the day but the car wasn’t going to be available so I headed to town to get the mail and figured I had about an hour and a half to see if I could get some photos around town of the fresh snow.  Before I left I caught this spider in my sink he couldn’t figure out how to get out I guess so I took him out and then the was lost in my bathroom for two days so he must have been a brain challenged spider.

 

 

 

 

This is from when I headed down the street to see if there was snow up there

 

 

 

 

A little snow and a little aspen color

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Cloman Blvd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from Piedra road

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the way home a hawk landed on a tree in front of me about 1/2 mile from the house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panoramas

 

I think this was on scenic drive

 

 

 

 

Cloman blvd. Damn power lines there is no way to avoid them

 

 

 

 

Steven’s Lake Road

 

 

 

 

Piedra Road

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On October 2nd I headed up Wolf Creek Pass, it was mostly cloudy again and I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to get a blue sky day.

 

 

 

Here is a close up of one of the hills

 

 

 

The Bootjack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Treasure falls was almost non existent we haven’t had much rain the last few weeks.

 

 

 

 

up to the overlook

 

 

 

 

I always have to get a shot of this tree for some reason it just calls to me with the  rock with a hole in it.

 

 

 

The was a crow hanging out on the cliff making some noise and he kind of makes an interesting

silhouette.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On to Lobo overlook at around 11,000 feet it is 3 miles of dirt road of the main highway at the top of the pass.

 

 

 

You can see there were hills full of aspen but at this time of the day they were in the shade that combined with the clouds makes them pretty dull.

 

 

 

 

Here you can see the parking lot of the Wolf Creek Ski area

 

 

 

Coming back down the pass I stopped in on the west fork road

 

 

 

 

Took a little deer by surprise

 

 

 

West Fork of the San Juan River

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panorama’s for the day

 

bootjack

 

 

 

lobo overlook

 

 

 

 

This lobo overlook view has all of the Ski Area

 

 

 

 

The viewpoint above treasure falls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is their little one, last time I saw it in July it is was  tiny little white thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This little duck got too close and got chased away

 

 

 

 

Here they are swimming together

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then all three of them were in the water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eventually they all swam across the lake