San Miguel White Water Rafting

Here we are posing before the big adventure. This was a technical class 3 trip. The water level was lower than expected thus causing us to have to dodge rocks and tree branches. Our guide had to jump out of the raft a couple of times to pull the raft off the rocks. Sorry no pictures. The camera was safely burried at the bottom of a waterproof bag that Marlin brought.

Woods Lake Adventure

After hiking Lone Cone Trail for over an hour without a clear map, none of us could agree on how to find the elusive lake. Katy argued that the lake had to be close to the campground since it was named after the lake and she was right. Only is was at the opposite side of the camp. Finally, Katy and Marlin set of in one direction and Patty, Geoff, Jim and I in another. Here is Geoff taking a picture to show that we did find the lake. The camp hosts had told Jim that there was a trail going around the lake. Only 3 miles long she said.

Although it was almost 5 pm and we had no food or warm clothes with us, we decided to chance it and hike around the lake, taking our time for pictures.

After some steep hiking and bushwacking, here we are, discovering that there is no trail around the lake and that it has several inlets,

with a large marshy meadow. Too far to trek all around. So we ended up taking off our boots and wading through the mud. Made it back in about an hour and 40 minutes. Not bad after all.

Dragonfly Hike

For our first hike of the w.e., we set of to find Woods Lake via Lone Cone Trail. It was a gorgeous hike whether we looked up or down: aspen,

dragonflies by the hundreds - just a little difficult to capture in film ...

... Colorado peaks at the horizon....

and wild flowers every where. This is Indian Paintbrush. There were also lots of white and blue Columbine and a few fire cracker Columbine.

Telluride Camping Trip

Arrival at Woods Lake Campground by Placerville, CO, about 10 miles west of Telluride for our 4th of July w.e. From left to right, Jim, Patty, Geoff, Marlin and Katy. We all have smiles on our faces looking forward to an excitimg 3 days together. The campground was great. I named it the Zen campground. The sites were impeccably clean and raked!

A dinner of good cheer, fun, laughter...

...singing...

and pumping river water to keep up the supplies.