My teenage daughter, Jordan, and I were on a five day guided llama trekking trip through Colorado’s Weminuche Wilderness with Redwood Llamas. We had spent last night at Eldorado Lake, camping in a beautiful valley at 12,500 ft, way up high in the San Juan Mountains. It had been a dramatic night, watching skies produce a pinkish […]
My teenage daughter, Jordan, and I were on a five day guided llama trekking trip through Colorado’s Weminuche Wilderness with Redwood Llamas. We had spent the last two nights at Elk Creek Camp, a rocky ledge in the San Juan Mountains a few miles south of Highland Mary Lakes. (Read Part 1 here.) Today was time to move […]
When I had asked my 17 yr old daughter what she’d like to do this summer she’d said, “Something with llamas!” Frankly, it came as no surprise. Her current fascination graced water bottles, mugs, phone covers and even socks she’d accumulated over the last year. So I googled “llama trekking” out of curiosity. Several options […]
Off-road driving, hiking, mountain biking, ice climbing, rappelling down waterfalls…you can do it all in this tiny mountain town! Sitting 7,800 ft high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, Ouray is known as “Switzerland of America.” It’s separated from the surrounding mountain towns of Silverton, Ridgway, Lake City and Telluride by giant mountain passes. […]
Imogene Pass is a 13,114 ft mountain pass in southwestern Colorado perched high in the sky between Ouray and Telluride in the San Juan Mountains. Each September, 1,600 runners participating in the Imogene Pass Run sprint out of Ouray to tackle the steep ascent up this fabled pass before descending down the other side of the […]
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