As written at the end of the previous article, I went to discover a natural arch, one of these natural formations that always attract me much. These, called Aspen Arch, is fairly isolated. To achieve it requires first finding your way through a maze of various tracks more or less maintained and then, about 20 miles further, to hike through virgin nature on a sometimes steep mountainside.
 
 
1. The place I left VivaLaVida for a few hours…
 

 
 
2. After 3 hours hijing and some pretty climbing, I discover Aspen Arch.
 

 
 
3. Its about 70 feet long impress!
 

 
 
4. Continuing her way eastward, VLC crosses beautiful highlands.
 

 
 
5. Lost ranch…
 

 
 
6. Looks like the Altiplano sometimes, here with a salty pond…
 

 
 
7. The track is not very marked in places…
 

 
 
8. In Hartsel, small highland village…
 

 
 
9. Another ranch, a bit further, as VLC approach the last mountain range before the great plains, laste Rocky Mountains range eastward.
 

 
 
10. Not far from the road, a small group Pronghorn antelope, the last species of wild antelope in North America.
 

 
 
11. With some patience, I let them approach.
 

 
 
12. VLC sometimes serves me as a blind! 😉
 

 
 
13. Only a few miles further, a new unexpected meet: a beautiful deer that VLV hardly scares.
 

 
 
14. And a small band of burro, wild donkeys.
 

 
 
15. That day, they were more fearful than the deer, I couldn’t approach that much!
 

 
 
Continuation and end of my crossing of Colorado in a few days…