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 a
great many miles into the wilderness area, 
and if coming from the north, as we did, by 
hiking over two high passes.  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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