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Spent last week in the Creede area, a nice area at the headwaters of the Rio Grande up at about 9K feet that is yet to be overpopulated and overbuilt. Did not spend as much time wheeling as I would have liked but it was a family vacation.
Bronco in the driveway of our Airbnb rental (about 10 miles SW of Creede), neighbor in the background and hwy 149 off in the distance. Took this on the last day, the only day it rained.
^^ Female and juvenile Big Horn sheep. Crossed in front of us as we were coming back out of a forest road leading to Seepage Lake (which was dry) and Santa Maria Reservoir. My phone camera does not do them justice.
^^ My daughter at the bottom of Ghost Lake, a tangent off the same road. Most of the main road was easy, though the 4x4 pickups we saw struggled a bit in the numerous mud holes (too much weight for the tire area I suspect). This tangent however was something you wanted an honest 4x4 as it was narrow, rocky and steep - level 4 I would say. I was in low range by the time we made it here.
A moose that had just crossed 149 in front of us a few moments before and hopped the fence. This is up just to the east of the Slumgullion pass, so at least 10,500 feet. Unlike the Big Horn in this area (hunted out by the late 1930's - reintroduced in the 1980's) they are not sure Moose are actually indigenous to the area, but they went ahead and introduced them anyways
Lake San Cristobal just south of Lake City, forget the name of the peak in the background. Lake City anchors the eastern side of the well known "Alpine Loop" in Colorado.
I guess this is the only pic I got of the Bronco on the well known "Bachelor Loop" (many old mines and history) just north of Creede, which we drove our first day in the area. A few days later I dropped my girls off at 'Cottonwood Grove Guest Ranch' so they could go horseback riding and I drove an offshoot of the loop called West Willow Creek road, which the OnX report (wrongly IMO) combines with the more driven East Willow Creek road. The west road is rocky and and steep, crests a pass, and then a narrow and steep shelf road with many switchbacks (some requiring 3 point or more turns ) coming down. Quite a bit of backing up would be required if you ran into traffic which I did not. Would not want to do this road in a vehicle without low range and real A/T or greater tires. Would not want to do it at all in the wet. Glad the girls were not with me as they would have been bitching the whole time
My girls who were the best part of the trip of course
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Bronco in the driveway of our Airbnb rental (about 10 miles SW of Creede), neighbor in the background and hwy 149 off in the distance. Took this on the last day, the only day it rained.
^^ Female and juvenile Big Horn sheep. Crossed in front of us as we were coming back out of a forest road leading to Seepage Lake (which was dry) and Santa Maria Reservoir. My phone camera does not do them justice.
^^ My daughter at the bottom of Ghost Lake, a tangent off the same road. Most of the main road was easy, though the 4x4 pickups we saw struggled a bit in the numerous mud holes (too much weight for the tire area I suspect). This tangent however was something you wanted an honest 4x4 as it was narrow, rocky and steep - level 4 I would say. I was in low range by the time we made it here.
A moose that had just crossed 149 in front of us a few moments before and hopped the fence. This is up just to the east of the Slumgullion pass, so at least 10,500 feet. Unlike the Big Horn in this area (hunted out by the late 1930's - reintroduced in the 1980's) they are not sure Moose are actually indigenous to the area, but they went ahead and introduced them anyways
Lake San Cristobal just south of Lake City, forget the name of the peak in the background. Lake City anchors the eastern side of the well known "Alpine Loop" in Colorado.
I guess this is the only pic I got of the Bronco on the well known "Bachelor Loop" (many old mines and history) just north of Creede, which we drove our first day in the area. A few days later I dropped my girls off at 'Cottonwood Grove Guest Ranch' so they could go horseback riding and I drove an offshoot of the loop called West Willow Creek road, which the OnX report (wrongly IMO) combines with the more driven East Willow Creek road. The west road is rocky and and steep, crests a pass, and then a narrow and steep shelf road with many switchbacks (some requiring 3 point or more turns ) coming down. Quite a bit of backing up would be required if you ran into traffic which I did not. Would not want to do this road in a vehicle without low range and real A/T or greater tires. Would not want to do it at all in the wet. Glad the girls were not with me as they would have been bitching the whole time
My girls who were the best part of the trip of course
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