{"id":216,"date":"2021-09-16T03:31:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T03:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2021-09-16T03:31:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T03:31:13","slug":"day-twenty-three-cortez-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Day twenty-three, Cortez, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My lovely wife and I went for a drive today to Telluride, CO. The highway took us up the Dolores River, past a cute old mining town named Rico, then into the San Juan Mountains. Our trip today took us over 10,000 feet in elevation twice; once on the highway and a second time on the Telluride gondola. Our map has the route marked as scenic, and it certainly was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a pleasant day up there. Historic downtown Telluride is in a valley, the ski resorts are about 2000 feet higher on the mountain. The resorts have built a gondola ride that connects the two; it is a no charge public transport and a real hoot to ride. We did some browsing in both places and had a great lunch in an old tavern downtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These mountains certainly have stories to tell. Native Americans, miners, ranchers, railroaders, all must have been challenged by the terrain and the climate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, tomorrow is another day to learn more. We are headed to Hovenweep National Monument to do some hiking. We have a driver\u2019s meeting tomorrow night; Friday is a travel day as we move on to Durango, and an appointment with a train on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rico, Colorado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Don\u2019t worry, Leila was driving<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Us, on the way up the gondola ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The city, far below us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Still on the gondola, but much closer to the bottom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lunch, with the mountains as a backdrop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Today\u2019s wildlife picture\u2026let\u2019s be aware of bears, people!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My lovely wife and I went for a drive today to Telluride, CO. The highway took us up the Dolores River, past a cute old mining town named Rico, then into the San Juan Mountains. Our trip today took us over 10,000 feet in elevation twice; once on the highway and a second time on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-park-tour-2021"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}