Fall Colors in the San Juan Mountains (Sunday)

On Sunday morning we got up early and headed back through Silverton and up Cement Creek Road to Gladstone. From there, we headed up into Prospect Gulch.

Headed up Red Mountain #3 from Prospect Gulch

View down into Prospect Gulch

Red Mountain #3

Next we headed back to Gladstone and took a trail that looped around Cement Creek Gulch and met back up with Hurricane Pass.

Hurricane Pass on Brown Mountain

Lake Como and Poughkeepsie Gulch

Once we reached Lake Como, we headed over California Pass and made our way to Animas Forks

Fresh snow on Hurricane Peak

California Gulch

Building at the Frisco Mine

Duncan residence in Animas Forks

Animas Forks

From Animas Forks we headed up the North Fork Cutoff to Mineral Creek and took that to US 550, where we turned right and headed back home 🙂

View down onto Mineral Point

Aspens changing along Mineral Creek

It was a great weekend….now to prepare myself for nine days in Moab starting next weekend 🙂