Due to the mild weather I have been able to keep riding my ATV. Here are some photos from my last trip out. (Click on photos to open a larger image.)
"The Giz" on a muddy trail
The road started off muddy due to melting snow. Grand Mesa is in the background.
A bit further up the trail I spied one of the wild horses that live here. Although a bit far off the road for my point-and-shoot camera, I took this photo:
Wild horse on Wild Horse Mesa
This is the 2nd horse I have seen while riding my ATV. Its nice to know they are there.
As I rode further the elevation increased, and I found myself above the snow line and looking at this landscape:
Snowy landscape
Wild Horse Mesa is the foreground and way in the back is Grand Mesa.
Eventually, as the snow got deeper, I decided to turn around and head for home. Here I am turning around at the top of a hill:
Turning around in the snow
At this point I am about 22 miles up the trail. Shortly after heading back I stopped at this sign post:
De Beque 19 Miles
Once I got home I had to take The Griz to a car wash to clean off all the mud and snow, then home to catch the Giants – Patriots football game. All in all, a pretty good weekend day!
Thats it for now. Thanks for looking in!
Jer,
Third pic from top is SO SO SO gorgeous. I’ve been looking at landscape art lately – this pic is as good as any I’ve seen.
Sounds like a fun Sunday (that is IF you like to ATV, and IF you don’t mind the cold, and IF you enjoy football) hehehe
Always meant to say that the music on your home page reminds me of my mom. I can just see her getting her boogie woogie on.
Not quite “unlimited vistas”, as you’re bounded by distant “hills”, but quite a view, especially above the snow-line looking down.
How’s the Grizzly performing in the snow? I assume you’ve reasonably good traction on powder, and the snow was just deep enough to camouflage off-trail “challenges”…
Attempted to find “fuel range” for a 550 without much luck — a 770 appears to get about 13 mpg on-trail. Assume a 550 would go 80-100 miles at 30-40 mph?