jonesin' for a roadtrip 3
Well, it's time for me to hit the road again. I'm getting bogged down at work again, and it'll help me out if I take off and clear my mind. This is a big trip, and it'll be a bit before we hit home again. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the pictures!
Waiiit, this looks familiar...
We're out of Rocky Mountain National Park and past Grand Lake. All that's left of 34 is the few miles leading up to US 40. We'll then retrace a few steps from the 1 year anniversary mega-trip and head south on SH 9. Let's go, shall we?
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Oh, yeah, did I mention that we're on the Colorado River Headwaters Scenic Byway? Because we have been since the RMNP boundaries.
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CDOT usually uses this type of signage to denote when we're driving by large mountains. I guess it works here, too.
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The lakes are a little low this time of year. Don't worry: the winter snows will fill these right back up.
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After a few miles, 34 breaks away from the shorelines.
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No, no, no, no. Thank you!
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Oh, and BTW: that recreation area was the Arapaho National Recreation Area. The more you know...
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Advanced warning that US 40 is all torn up. Still.
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We're junctioning something. Who can guess what?
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Entering the town of Granby.
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The last few feet of US 34. That's the END! right up ahead.
Alright, kiddies. At this point, we're overlapping quite a bit from my 1 year anniversary mega-trip. Instead of photographing it again and eating up more space than needed on my webhost, I thought I'd just link to it from here, and give you a link back to this page when we've caught back up with the routing of this trip. So, Click on over to see those pictures. When we're back on track with this trip, you'll see a return link. Got it? Good. I'll be waiting.
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SH 9 takes a hard right at the edge of town to get back onto the original alignment. I dunno, something about an airport runway.
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The first reassuarance shield while heading southbound. This is about 3 miles after the start of SH 9.
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The Colorado River Headwaters Scenic Byway takes leave of us now. It has a county road it wants to meet.
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Distance sign. The Green Mountain Reservoir isn't a town, it's a reservoir. Another example of Colorado's penchant with realistic names.
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While I've been cursing the cloud cover this trip, I have to admit that there's times where the clouds do add to the scenery.
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SH 9 travels through some pretty desolate space at first. We're still pretty high in the mountains, though.
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Services potpurri!
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Yup. Make all the Master Baiter jokes you want. Can't believe this actually made it onto a CDOT sign.
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A turnoff. I'm assuming that this was the original alignment of SH 9 and that what we're about to travel upon was created later.
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The Green Mountain Reservior comes into view. Heeney is on the western banks while 9 stays on the eastern banks.
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See? Told you.
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9 travels through some impressive rock cuts while traveling past the reservoir.
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Looks like the reservoir's kinda low.
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The Green Mountain Reservoir holds the Blue River. It looks great under a red sky when surrounded by yellow aspens and brown rocks.
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Scenery rox0rz!
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Cutting through some seriously dark rocks.
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Even though we're curving through some serious cuts, at no time does the speed limit drop further than this.
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More black rock goodness. Ancient volcano ash or lava perhaps?
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Green Mountain Reservoir is pretty good sized.
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Curving and twisting away.
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After about 5 miles, we pass the reservoir.
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Just in case you weren't satisfied the first time around, here's the way back to the Master Bait shop. (Man, that joke rubs me the wrong way... )
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Why yes, we are heading south. Why do you ask?
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More cloudcover-enhanced picture taking here.
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Here, too.
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Walled in. The white stripes on the barrier are reflective tape. It's all shiny and stoof when your lights are on.
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Fall foilage, Colorado Style.
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Interesting patterned wall. That's not that thick.
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This snazzy wall is even contoured to the terrain.
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After all that, we bip into Silverthorne.
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BUSTED! Silverstone style.
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Typical signal installation for these mountain towns. Gotta look cool up in here.
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Approaching 70. That 7-11 is one of my favorite stops when in the area. It's a fun challenge to get to the gas pumps because of the shape of the lot.
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