Time for my annual cross country trek.

[RBP]

Gorgeous! Thanks for the updates, Griff!

[Griffin]

I wonder...



Why yes...A natural picture frame.

[Griffin]

Gorgeous! Thanks for the updates, Griff!

Welcome. I have to go on record and say all picture credit goes to the spousal unit, I am shit with a camera.

[Griffin]

An old mine site is directly behind us, notice the 2 dams built to create a sluice to wash the ore.

[Griffin]

The hitch box is not on the back, I do sometimes learn from mistakes.

[Griffin]

Ghost town of Animas Forks between Cinnamon pass and Engineer pass.



They're all connected by a shelf road. For those that don't know a shelf road is just a ledge hanging on the side of the mountain like a shelf. Not for the faint of heart.
(on hind sight a F150 is probably not the ideal vehicle)

[Griffin]

"Heyyyy, I’m trying to eat lunch here."

[Griffin]

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.

[Griffin]

[Griffin]

For years the wife has called moose "the fictional beast" because she could never see one in the wild no matter where we tried to view. This trip she had moose overload.

[Griffin]

just leave me alone and let me die...

[Griffin]

Lake Fork Gunnison River north of Lake City

[Griffin]

Black Canyon of the Gunnisons



" This is the sort of thing you lifeforms enjoy, is it?" (Marvin from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)









“Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions. Why stop now just when I’m hating it?”

[Noilly Pratt]

Wow- great pics. Thanks for taking us along!

[Griffin]