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[Bosque Bill]

There is a new adventure posted on Bosque Bill's Backroads travel & camping blog.

 

SW Colorado and SE Utah - Each part links to the next.

 

Dolores Canyon, Dolores River, River Road, Colorado
https://bosquebill.b...019-part-1.html

 

Buckeye Lake, Colorado; La Sal Mountains; Fisher Towers, Utah
https://bosquebill.b...019-part-2.html

 

Abajo Mountains, Causeway Road, Utah
https://bosquebill.b...019-part-3.html

 

North Cottonwood, Gooseberry, Elk Mountain Roads, The Notch, Cottonwood Road, UT
https://bosquebill.b...019-part-4.html

 

Remember, click on any photo for a larger version.

[Cayuse]

Thanks for sharing!  Looks like a great trip.

 

There are so many roads criss-crossing the Abajos and that area it's hard to keep them all straight.

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Thanks Bill.Nice trip ans photos.Were the "balls"on the rock Goose berries?

Thanks for sharing.

Frank

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Bill, a wonderful report in a spectacular area. We’ve been in part of it once, and want to return. Thanks for sharing!

[takesiteasy]

Thanks for another fine report and photos. I especially liked the photo of the singing vireo.

[Elken]

Thanks for the trip report and great photos... another area to add to my trip wish list.

[Bosque Bill]

Thanks Bill.Nice trip ans photos.Were the "balls"on the rock Goose berries?

Thanks for sharing.

Frank

 

Ha, ha, good one, Frank. Thanks.

[Smokecreek1]

Wow Bill, another well written, photographed and produced TR-they seem to get better each time. For those of us who probably will never have a chance to  visit these places, thanks for taking us along !

 

Smoke

[longhorn1]

Bill, another great report. Beautiful country and photos. Enjoyed the ride along. Thanks for sharing.

[Foy]

Very nice and totally enjoyable, as always.  Thanks for the time and effort to post your TR.  

 

Along the way, you discovered that the La Sals and Abajos are laccoliths--intrusions of igneous rock which were emplaced in a particular fashion in between beds of sedimentary rock, with the added effect of causing an area above the intrusion to bulge upward. The La Sals are in fact "textbook" laccoliths as presented in the igneous petrology textbook we used for the junior-level geology major class back in the mid 1970s.

 

Foy