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This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.
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Today, pictures from valued commenter Wag.
Last week my family and I went camping in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. We had a fantastic trip, claimed to 14,000 foot peaks, and had fun visiting the old mining town of Creede. The wildflowers, particularly in a place called American Basin, were the best I’ve ever seen in my 55 years of living in Colorado.
A columbine in American Basin
A glacial tarn on the way to Redcloud Peak
Sunrise on Handies Peak
North Clear Creek Falls is a beautiful hundred foot waterfall about a half mile off the highway between Creede and Lake City
Old mining building outside Creede
Sloan Lake, just off the trail up Handies Peak
Approaching the summit of Redcloud.
Thank you so much Wag, do send us more when you can.
Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.
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— Clearly, there are some formatting and text issues to solve, but overall, we’re in a good place.
Thanks Wag – I so wish I was wandering that scenery right now – I cannot tell you how much I love that part of Colorado. I only spent 9 years living there, but the day I arrived, I felt a deep “what took you so long?”, and it’s been a deep love since. If I could, I’d move to the Lake City area in a heartbeat, as long as I had high speed internet and reasonable access to a city/good health care (Grand Junction suffices). Amazon delivers, and, TBH, living around such natural majesty is a grand way to spend your days on this earth. You’re blessed to have lived in Colorado for 55 years!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Trying to figure out how you even get to that mining building…
OzarkHillbilly
I do miss the mountains.
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Very carefully.
raven
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Clicking on the picture gives a view that looks like there is a road or path to the left of the mine.
Sab
@raven: That’s what I thought. Creep down carefully from the left. Use Mules? Aren’t they good at creeping carefully?
Quinerly
Gorgeous pictures! Thanks.
cain
For the past 3 days I have been in Manchester, UK attending a conference. It has a fabulous experience, and I’ve known these people for years, sometimes decades. I consider my family and the source of a lot of my passion. You can find out at the GUADEC and of course GNOME I would actually love some feedback on our website from people who are not at all familiar with us.
It’s been a few days of little sleep, and a lot of fun, fun, interactions with people.
I’ll see if I can post some pictures at some point.
JPL
What beautiful pictures!
rikyrah
Nature is beautiful….thank you ?
debbie
That’s some amazing waterfall.
Central Planning
FYI, internet access via satellite sucks ass. It’s a first world problem for being able to enjoy the Adirondacks.
OzarkHillbilly
@Central Planning: Meh. It’s the only available option for us. There are different packages available. It works for me.
MomSense
Beautiful photos.
Argiope
The San Juans are glorious! Thanks for reminding me I need to go back, Wag—these photos are so beautiful.
satby
Wag, wonderful pictures! Looks like a great trip, thanks for sharing.
Wag
Thanks for the nice comments. It was a fantastic trip. We leave Thursday for more adventures, this time foreign in nature. I’ll submit more photos upon our return!
Central Planning
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s the latency that irritates me. Can’t do anything that is interactive. As long as your patient and don’t click things impatiently, it works fine. Again, 1st world problem :)
Major Major Major Major
Very cool pictures, I love that part of the state. My dad has had a framed picture of an old mining building on his wall for years, from around there, it looks a lot like that one but I don’t know that it is.
Alain, the ‘make a link, etc.’ things haven’t been filled in.
BroD
great shooting, Wag!
J R in WV
@Central Planning:
It (sat connectivity) does suck, but it is better than a 1200-baud modem on the phone line. We used to keep the phone line modem connection alive just so we could see NOAA weather radar (slowly) during the passage of a storm. If you’re going to live in the country internet access is going to be an issues, at least so far as current technology can carry us.
Major Major Major Major
@J R in WV: 1200 Bauds… *shudder*
J R in WV
Alain:
Your “– note – this is the first auto-form-post –”is telling, but there is no link to the photo submission form in it. Also, finding an older not-auto post had a link to the form, but it was nearly invisible for me, as I’ve used the link in the past the color doesn’t speak out or snap. I would recommend using the and going all caps to make it stand out to the average user. Like me.
I’m going to shrink some photos a little to see if they will upload to the tool, my last try I used the saved .jpg quality which was upper 3 Meg to lower 4 Meg from the camera that was used at the time. It’s obvious that today submission was fairly high quality and pretty good sized photo files. The last time I tried to auto-submit I think my suddenly slower sat-based Internet link timed out before uploading all the photos …
Barbara
The San Juans are on our short list of places to visit. Those pictures are just stunning. Thanks for sharing.
Major Major Major Major
@J R in WV: we increased the timeout just for you, I think it’s at a minute now.
Steeplejack (phone)
@cain:
One quick bit of feedback about the GNOME website (I went to it after seeing a comment you made a week or so ago):
It would be very helpful to have on your main page a quick, simple statement of specifically what GNOME is, e.g., “GNOME [is | provides] a graphical user interface for [Unix? | Linux (which flavors?)] that is intuitive and easy to use.”
Your home page has nothing, the “About Us” page has nothing, and even the “Learn More” page gets down to business sort of indirectly by example.
I’m a software professional (though not with Linux) and had vaguely heard of GNOME in the past, but I wasn’t quite sure what it is until I poked around a bit. It would be nice to get some clarification as soon as one gets to the site.
My 2¢, anyway. Keep up the good work!
A Ghost To Most
The San Juan Mountains are my favorite place in Colorado.
If you get to Ridgway, go up on top of Log Hill Mesa, and find the park on the south rim of the mesa. The view there is my favorite in the whole state.
Miss Bianca
Yay, Creede!
I know why the wildflowers are so great this year – we are getting, for us, ridiculous amounts of rain. it is so green around here, I could almost kid myself I was back east or out on the west coast. I’ve even been swatting mosquitos!