Interlude...

Sorry for the long silence on the blog, but we have been in ‘dead zones’ for almost two weeks – at least as far as internet and cell service goes.  However, I would not call the fantastic forests and wildernesses we have been camping and hiking in, dead in the least.  I guess I have to amend that statement a little.  There are areas of dead spruce where the spruce bark beetle has done its terrible damage.  But because of this destruction, the wildflowers have the sun they need to really put on a show and that they have been doing not only in the spruce kill areas but all over the mountain and alpine meadows of southern Colorado.  Even the locals have commented on how beautiful the wildflowers are this summer. 

What a marvelous time we are having seeing places we have never been before!  I have so many places to show you…  

 

After leaving Durango we stayed for a week in the San Juan National Forest near Telluride, Colorado hiking in the San Juan N.F. and the Lizard Head Wilderness.   Next we visited the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and then went on to the Lake City area where we stayed out in the Gunnison National Forest.  There we hiked on the Continental Divide and Colorado Trails and also took hikes in the Uncompahgre Wilderness and two other Wilderness Study Areas (that means they may someday be official Wilderness Areas).

We have passed through a few small towns and been able to make a couple of phone calls but otherwise we are weeks behind in e-mails and every other form of electronic communication.  Stay tuned as we are headed back to civilization and I will try to get up a blog or two almost every day until I catch up.