Cold Springs Mountain and Vermillion Basin

Cold Springs Mountain



Into Vermillion Basin.



The threat.



First, Sand Wash Basin, home of Colorado's largest Wild Horse Herds.





Rain plus clay equals sketchy.





Irish Canyon and Fremont Pictographs.







Cold Springs Mountain. Amazing.



















Roads.









Wildflowers









Gates of Lodore and Browns Park (The Green River runs through it).











A Questar pad with Vermillion Basin and Lookout Mountain in the background. All the above could turn into this:







Coming home. Craig, Colorado.

Harrison Creek Details

What I really should have taken pics of were the half dozen Korean ladies I encountered at halfway down to Harrison Creek. They were filling plastic bags full of Fiddleheads Ferns. I asked them about them and they said that the Routt National Forest was one of the only places the public could legally harvest the ferns. And that they taste amazing in stir frys with garlic and lemon.

Fiddleheads.

Flathead Lake, Montana. Memorial Day 2009.

The Crew or As much as I dislike you all individually, its surpising how much I like you collectively.













The Venue(s).





The Guard Dog.



The Muscle.



I don't know who this guy is.



Or this guy.



The beach.











The night.







(Yes, that is a card carrying attorney staring into a piece of plastic.)





The Music.





The Mission Range.



The Bocce.





The Big Sky.









The reason we all got to spend three days on kick ass Flathead Lake...
The Foleys to be.