Author: Steve

In Silver City we got to wake up the the curve-billed thrasher’s song.

We’re at an RV Park two miles outside Glenwood Springs, just inside the
mouth of the canyon. So is the fire. It’s not a large fire, just a spotty one burning up some difficult terrain
on the north side of the road. Yesterday I drove home past the burning
glowing mountainside. Today it’s been cloudy with rain off and on. The
mountainside smolders.

A quick walk around the campground and we got magpie, house finch, house
wren, bushtits, flicker, yellow rumped warbler, and Osprey. North again.
We didn’t go over the high scary passes, Coal Bank, Molas, and Red Mountain.
Cortez to Dolores, Stoner, and Ricoh. Over Lizardhead Pass, only 10,000
feet high. Full fall colors. Right turn at Placerville, over Dallas Divide, 9,000 feet, Ridgway, and
lunch at the state park. For lunch we got starlings, magpies, pine siskin,
yellow rumped, mountain bluebirds, and eastern bluebirds. Montrose, Olathe,
Delta, Hotchkiss, Paonia, Bowie, Somerset. Over McClure Pass, 8,700 feet.
Down past the turn to Marble, through Redstone, Carbondale, and Glenwood
Springs. We’re back in the Roaring Fork Valley again, staying at a
different place this time. The Campground at the No Name exit. They
changed it. It used to be tight and tiny. They opened it up. Now we get a
large open site with fifty amp full hookups, and a view of the sky for the
satellite dish.