{"id":6111,"date":"2016-09-29T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2016-09-16T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T20:34:36","slug":"alpine-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/alpine-loop\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Alpine loop…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nImogene Pass is by far not the only track traced in these mountains. I went through Ouray buy some fresh food before traveling part of the Alpine Loop, a track that some Jeep enthusiasts love to discover.
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\n1. In Ouray even more than in Telluride, we believe to be a century ago!
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\n2. The opera building.
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\n3. Red Mountains which are aptly named, since my camp.
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\n4. The next day, VivaLaVida begins by Gray Copper Gulch roa, amid the Red Mountains.
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\n5. It’s color of the iron oxide which obviously gave their name to these mountains.
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\n6. Colors are awesome!
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\n7. While on the nearby mountains, the iron ore concentration is not as important.
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\n8. At the first pass (12,400 feet), a small lake…
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\n9. A little further, another cad and peaks powdered with snow of the night.
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\n10. Lake Como, the larger of the area.
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\n11. VLV cashes altitude unflinchingly.
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\n12. Snow shower at 12,700 feet, over California Pass.
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\n13. Downhill on the other side while the shower goes away.
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\n14. I left VLV a few hours to walk to a swampy area.
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\n15. Altitude bogs…
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\n16. Everywhere, mining relics leave their trace. Here, a typical mine with tongue extracts waste.
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\n17. entrance of Silver Queen Mine…
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\n18. All were closed to prevent accident.
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\n19. Nice surprise: I could finally capture the portrait of an adorable pika, so lively that it’s almost impossible to photograph.
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\n20. It lives in screes and it sneaks in full speed.
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\n21. New snow shower.
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\n22. Small alpine lake.
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\n23. Downhill into the next valley. I only saw two Jeeps that day…
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\n24. For my brother and just as testimony because the picture is very bad: a golden eagle.
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\n25. Another raptor that I have not positively identified.
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\n26. There is plenty of marmots..!
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\n27. Alpine biotope.
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\n28. Within minutes, the track is covered with hail…
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\nWell, following the Alpine Loop in the next update, hoping not to bore you with all these alpine tundra images…
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