Trip through and around the San Juan Mountains

We traveled from Albuquerque, NM to Ouray, CO. Along the way, we encountered quite a few different morphologies. Rick made quite a few stops so we could see and experience these different structures. We encountered a majority of limestones, sandstones and shales. We saw a lot of examples of physical weathering especially some create examples of land clearing through avalanches.



During our trip, we came across the Badlands. I can understand now why they are considered a difficult terrain. No wonder pioneers traveling across the West would not like to travel this land.



I must admit that parts of the trip made me a bit uncomfortable since the drop to the bottom would have hurt. And of course, Rick was nice enough to mention that I had a problem with heights.



A couple of videos from today's trip.