Molas Pass Colorado

by Joan Carroll

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Molas Pass Colorado

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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To someone from Texas, a visit to Colorado in late April sounds fun and in no way suggests winter or snow. Anyone from Colorado would know better! This is Molas Pass in the San Juan Mountains of western Colorado in the United States. The pass is in the San Juan National Forest. The pass is traversed by the Million Dollar Highway, U.S. Highway 550 between Silverton and Durango, which is part of the San Juan Skyway Scenic Byway. It is one of the higher passes in Colorado at 10,910'. William Henry Holmes, a U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey explorer, wrote in 1876 the following description of this and nearby locations: "If you should, in your imagination, put together in one small group, perhaps 12 miles square, all the heights and depths, the rugged precipices and polished faces of rock, and all the sharp pinnacles and deeply indented crests, and twenty times the inaccessible summits that both of us have ever seen, you would not have a picture equal to this."

FEATURED PHOTO, Our World Gallery group, 7/10/16

FEATURED PHOTO, The World We See Group, 7/8/16

FEATURED PHOTO, All Seasons Photography Only - One Per Day group, 7/6/16

joan carroll, trees, snowy, view, scenic, evergreen, landscape, mountain

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July 6th, 2016

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