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Exploring the Alpine Triangle: Day Two
Exploring the Alpine Triangle: Day Two
After a restful night at The Wyman Hotel in Silverton, we found the mountains around town still shrouded in clouds… an ominous sign for the trek we’d make over Cinnamon Pass on our way to Lake City. Clouds in the morning are almost always a signal of heavy rains and lightning storms in the afternoon, especially during the “monsoon” season of late July and early August.
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Editor-at-Large Kirk Deeter and photographer Kevin Cooley spent three days with Trout Unlimited exploring the Alpine Triangle, a rugged expanse of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, so named because the region is loosely contained within the shape made by connecting the towns of Ouray, Lake City, and Silverton. TU wants Congress to declare the place a National Conservation area to protect its streams from mining expansion and new road development. Here's what they found.
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Photo Gallery Comments (5)
Fantastic Pictures of Adventurous,Rugged Territory! My kind of place.
Some of your photos are a bit screwed up. You're missing the pic of American Basin. I mean, Lake City is nice and all, but American Basin in July is a bit better.
Takes my breath away.
Again, great stuff. This is perhaps THE place where I noticed more good behavior on the part of the ORV crowd than any other place I've visited in the West, and that's likely due to the nature of the road system and the traffic. It's important to note, too, that you can get off the beaten path and away from the sound of motors by simply hitting a trail or two on foot. And Deeter's right... the roads are an adventure, and that, of course, is part of the experience.
stayed there before. love that town.
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stayed there before. love that town.
Fantastic Pictures of Adventurous,Rugged Territory! My kind of place.
Some of your photos are a bit screwed up. You're missing the pic of American Basin. I mean, Lake City is nice and all, but American Basin in July is a bit better.
Takes my breath away.
Again, great stuff. This is perhaps THE place where I noticed more good behavior on the part of the ORV crowd than any other place I've visited in the West, and that's likely due to the nature of the road system and the traffic. It's important to note, too, that you can get off the beaten path and away from the sound of motors by simply hitting a trail or two on foot. And Deeter's right... the roads are an adventure, and that, of course, is part of the experience.
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