2018


At the last minute, I decided to not bring
this burro and cook along with us on our
San Juans expedition:





Bart is in the center of the photograph:





The distant haze from 
whence we came hiking:




Our 13,000' mountain to climb:




Same mountain.  Bart better wake up.
Lots of climbing to do:




Looking down at the beginning
of another of our climbs:






Hiking over 12,500' Hunchback Pass -

Looking back:






Looking ahead:






This mountain range -- with the Guardian, 
Mt Silex and Storm King Peak as the gateway
to the range -- can be seen only by hiking
many miles into the wilderness area, and if
coming from the north, as we did, by hiking
over a high pass.  It's always like arriving
in Shangri La when they come into view.

I hadn't seen them since 1977:









In the South San Juans, while exploring 
the back country by jeep, we came across
a derelict train station from early in
the previous century:








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