Million Dollar Highway

It is the final morning of our workshop and again we are out the door by 5:30am and back up to our viewpoint over Ridgway. This morning, the colors are spectacular, the clouds in perfect formation. We are a happy group of photographers.

 The workshop over, it is time to explore. We take off and drive the "Million Dollar Highway", part of the San Juan Skyway. It is one of the nation's most spectacular and most dangerous drives, cut from the side of the mountain with hairpin turns and lack of guardrails.

We reach the very charming town of Ouray, set amidst towering cliffs.

The drive is indeed jaw dropping as it ascends the pass at 11,000 ft. in elevation. Much of the leaves have fallen from the aspens but the distant peaks are covered in snow.

At Silverton, we see the Durango Silverton narrow gauge train as it puffs its way into the historic mining town.

Our day has been without rain but we hear that 6-8 inches of snow is falling north near Breckenridge.
Quite variable is the weather in Colorado!!