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The Continental Divide trail extends for 3,100 miles from Mexico to Canada. We traversed a few miles of the trail just north of Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
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The trail is marked periodically.
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Papa Tom and wildflowers, on the trail. He carried the very heavy canteen of water. Thanks, Papa Tom!
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Touching the clouds
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The hills are alive . . . . doesn't this make you want to twirl and sing like Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music"?
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The trail crossed a meadow. Find on the way up; not so fine on the way down, when it was raining, sleeting, and lightning, and we were the tallest things running down the mountain!
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| Wild daisies? |
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Jacket was too warm; switched to vest. But it was about 48 degrees later in the hike. Brrr!
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| Logs can be your friends on the way up and down. |
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We took a spur off the main trail to get up higher.
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Mountain strawberries: tiny and tart!
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Near the summit
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Papa Tom made it!
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Papa Tom's Thor pose!
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Enjoying the view
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Thanks to Papa Tom's mountain hiking experience, he knew to bring rain gear for us. We needed it on the hike down, when we were rained and sleeted on. The sleet stung like being pelted with rock salt!
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