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Glenn Butcher

January 12, 2019 10:22AM

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> The day after Thanksgiving I (we?) chased 484 from Durango to Farmington under virtually balmy conditions.
> That's Colorado/New Mexico for you.

Olaf, your pictures point out how things can be radically different at various altitudes. Reminds me of a trip from Colorado Springs to Chama with my son:

Drive to Walsenburg: Clear, temp in the 60s.
Over LaVeta Pass: Socked in with snow, tractor trailers were sliding backward on the road. We just slowly trundled over in the Subaru...
Into Alamosa: Clear, temp in the 60s. I'd never driven over Manga/Cumbres passes, so we elected to proceed west over Wolf Creek to Pagosa Springs, then back to Chama.
Over Wolf Creek Pass: Socked in with snow. At the pass, we encountered a truck pulling a boat that slid off the road, the only thing that kept them from the abyss was that the boat got tangled up in the guardrail.
Pagosa to Chama: Clear, but temps had fallen into the 30s.

Posting mainly to give folks who come to Colorado and drive the ng country a sense for how it can change by altitude, even in the same day...

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Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 11, 2019 09:17PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 11, 2019 09:31PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 11, 2019 09:40PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Scott Gibbs	January 11, 2019 09:45PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Frolin	January 11, 2019 09:50PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 11, 2019 09:59PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Glenn Butcher	January 12, 2019 10:22AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Sharrod	January 12, 2019 07:12AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	cdaspit	January 12, 2019 10:11AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Sharrod	January 12, 2019 07:14AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Jimmy Blouch	January 12, 2019 11:59AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Greg Scholl	January 13, 2019 09:07AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Jimmy Blouch	January 13, 2019 03:37PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Greg Scholl	January 13, 2019 08:41PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Craig Kumler	January 12, 2019 08:59AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Greg Scholl	January 12, 2019 11:10AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Mike	January 12, 2019 11:30AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 12, 2019 04:39PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 12, 2019 05:58PM
Treasure Trove	John West	January 12, 2019 11:01PM
Re: Treasure Trove	Russo Loco	January 13, 2019 12:12PM
The Final Years, Alamosa to Farmington	John West	January 15, 2019 10:16AM
Re: The Final Years, Alamosa to Farmington	Sharrod	January 15, 2019 10:24AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	John K	January 12, 2019 08:26PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	rehunn	January 12, 2019 09:59PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	nickgully	January 13, 2019 09:12AM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Thorinkiller	January 13, 2019 12:23PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Sharrod	January 13, 2019 01:36PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Earl	January 13, 2019 06:50PM
Re: Cranks Taking Pictures Of Trains.	Chris Walker	January 13, 2019 07:52PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Mike	January 13, 2019 08:42PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Greg Scholl	January 13, 2019 08:47PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 13, 2019 09:05PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 13, 2019 09:25PM
Re: Flanger Train over Cumbres, December 18, 1961	Russo Loco	January 14, 2019 01:04PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Olaf Rasmussen	January 14, 2019 04:11PM
Re: Stormy Cumbres turns November 23, 1966	Herb Kelsey	January 19, 2019 04:07PM

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