Photos and happenings from Tim. Mostly photos.
Terry and Gordon, good friends from Boulder, long gone back to their roots in Youngstown, OH.
These photos were derived from Kodachrome slides taken in the fall on 1991, and scanned in 2014.
This area was either Winter Park, or Redfeather Lakes.
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Around Labor Day 1991 we signed up for a big tennis tourney in Snowmass. We’d already played an Aspen tourney a year ago this time of year, we knew it was a great time. Being poor and cheap by nature, we camped in the back of our dinky little Toyota, down by the river. The river in this case was Woody Creek.
After the tourney, we drove back to Carbondale, the headed south across Scofield Pass, then to Kebler Pass, and on in to Crested Butte, camping out of our truck along the way.
At some point, coming or going, we drove by the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, an amazingly deep valley carved by the Gunnison River.
Finally, we spent a very short time in Teluride. The weather turned wet and cold. Cheap or not, we checked into a condo to warm up.
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Attended by Jeff, Tim, Steve, Bob, and that one other guy who’s name escapes me.
Mount Harvard, in the Collegiate Range and reputed to be one of the easiest ascents in the whole state, is the only 14’er I ever climbed . It wasn’t technical, but it was high enough. It’s the third highest in the state at 14,434′. The air gets real thin up there. Clouds came and went, the omnipresent threat of bad weather blowing in up that high was a bit nerve wracking, at least for me. The feeling of exposure is intense.
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I’m guessing this was in July. Skovrons, Pattons, Missy Smith, and others I can’t identify.
Our second time to do Slickrock. Tony and friend Bob came along. The Carapellas were in town too, altho not camping or riding. They drove out to party with us. Brought ice, made us G&T’s.