A landscape photographer's tour

Keith's travels in the Colorado Rockies - September-October 2008

Back to Denver from Frisco via Mt Evans

OK, up to the bottom of the Mt. Evans road, since it was closed by the snow.

This photo-diary covers a driving tour around the Colorado Rockies in the Fall (September/October 2008).

Although my third visit to the state, it's actually the first time I've been in Colorado at this time of the year. A good year for the Fall colours.

There are also photo-journals on this site covering a 2006 trip to Colorado and two to the Pacific coast..

There are lots of excellent photo books by people who've had a bit more time to look round than I have, such as this one by John Fielder... (lots of places I didn't get to).

Since I'm not on my own, it's a bit more of a road trip and not quite so heavily phototgraphy oriented as before ;-) That said, I'm getting some excellent photos and look forward to creating some great new prints, black and white as well as colour.

Colorado is a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip round the state to photograph some of the scenery. If you've any questions about the hotels/inns/motels where I stayed, then please do feel free to drop me a line.

	Daily pages 27th Sept.: to Denver 28th Sept.: Estes Park 29th Sept.: Rocky Mountain National Park 30th Sept.: Grand lake to Steamboat Springs 1st Oct: Steamboat Lake 2nd Oct: Steamboat to Leadville 3rd Oct: Leadville to Aspen 4th Oct: Aspen and Castle Creek 5th Oct: Aspen to Ouray 6th Oct: Telluride
What's the weather like? National Weather Service radar Geological maps Webcams What are the roads like? (CO)	7th Oct: Durango via Silverton 8th Oct: Durango to Gunnison 9th Oct: Ohio Pass 10th Oct: Gunnison to Salida 11th Oct: Salida to Frisco 12th Oct: Loveland Pass 13th Oct: Via Mt Evans (almost) 14th Oct: Flying home

Just a quick blog to finish things off :-)

Rather than just drive back to Denver along I-70, we turned off towards the Mt Evans road

Still a few Fall colours, despite the snow.

snow on fall Aspen

Up at 11,000 feet there was a bit more snow

This is echo Lake at the entrance to the Mt Evans Road. Unfortunately closed

Echo lake, Mt Evans, Colorado

A bit further on (Juniper Pass) there was quite a bit of snow

Mt Evans snowy trees

You can clearly see the level of the snow in this view of the mountains to the East

snowy view of the rockies

I'll tidy up the blog and maybe add a few missing pictures when I'm back in the UK

I'm hoping to have a review of the GX200 in a few weeks, in fact over the next couple of months you should be seeing a lot of pictures from this trip appearing in new reviews.

>> Next Day >> Heading back to the UK (final pics)

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