Merry Christmas...

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Getting an early start with my annual card...

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littlebull209338 said:
Merry Christmas everyone ! Blue quit holding out and being selfish with the white stuff, send some over the mountain. We are bone dry. Nice photo on your card Tony.
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We ran up to Golden for Jr’s graduation last week. We definitely have more snow down here than anywhere else we saw. This was last Thursday. The snow machines were out in force.
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littlebull209338 said:
Merry Christmas everyone ! Blue quit holding out and being selfish with the white stuff, send some over the mountain. We are bone dry. Nice photo on your card Tony.
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I use that 'card' every year. The photo is an oldie, taken in the mid-1970s at Vallecito Lake, Colo., which is about 20 miles NE of Durango. We owned Silver Spruce Lodge (now named Bear Paw) at the north end of the lake for three years.

I shot the photo real early after a snowfall during the night. The Vallecito River in the photo flows from the high country into the lake. I was standing about ankle deep but only about 10' from the bridge on the main road that goes around the lake. The driveway to our resort was about 100 yds. to the left, meaning we basically had the same view from our kitchen window minus the river.

Off in the distance is the Weminuche Wilderness, one of the largest in the country. Among those mountains are a couple 14teeners -- i.e. peaks over 14,000 ft. elevation. Two different main trailheads were located nearby. The elevation at the lake is over 8,000 feet.

During the three years we lived there, I spent many days on horseback and afoot in that spectacular high country guiding hunters or fishermen, riding patrol with the local game warden (Gene Basset) or simply up there to hunt/fish with friends. It was one of the neater periods of my life.
 
OutdoorWriter said:
I use that 'card' every year. The photo is an oldie, taken in the mid-1970s at Vallecito Lake, Colo., which is about 20 miles NE of Durango. We owned Silver Spruce Lodge (now named Bear Paw) at the north end of the lake for three years.

I shot the photo real early after a snowfall during the night. The Vallecito River in the photo flows from the high country into the lake. I was standing about ankle deep but only about 10' from the bridge on the main road that goes around the lake. The driveway to our resort was about 100 yds. to the left, meaning we basically had the same view from our kitchen window minus the river.

Off in the distance is the Weminuche Wilderness, one of the largest in the country. Among those mountains are a couple 14teeners -- i.e. peaks over 14,000 ft. elevation. Two different main trailheads were located nearby. The elevation at the lake is over 8,000 feet.

During the three years we lived there, I spent many days on horseback and afoot in that spectacular high country guiding hunters or fishermen, riding patrol with the local game warden (Gene Basset) or simply up there to hunt/fish with friends. It was one of the neater periods of my life.
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With Santa in the shot I just assumed it was a trail cam photo.
 
I thought I Was done--4 kids 3 with masters AND then life hit. They started coming back.....but it has all worked out and I am happy with the results. The mines is a great school...congrats
 

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