Some of you are familiar with the December Polar Express excursion on the Williams to Grand Canyon train. Here's Durango's exciting activity for Fall. The campground where we are staying lets the train company use their pasture to set up a Charlie Brown pumpkin patch. They've been working several days to set up tents to house all kinds of fun things to do. Kids get on the train in downtown Durango and ride out to the campground, then get off the train to visit the pumpkin patch.
Fall marches on! Trees that were green a few weeks ago are now brilliant red. As we were looking for wildlife one evening, we came upon this bull elk with his "harem". In the video below, he is herding the "ladies" away from us. The same evening, we saw a bobcat running across the road but couldn't get the camera ready quick enough to get a picture.
Coal Bank Pass is about half-way between Durango and Silverton. The area's first winter storm came through Saturday night and dumped white stuff all over the mountains, so we took a drive Sunday afternoon.
One of our favorite places in Silverton is this restaurant where they serve funnel cakes -- particularly tasty snack on a cold afternoon.
What a shock to be driving along a country road about 1 mile north of our campground and see this bear. Nancy was so surprised it took her a few seconds to say "there's a bear", so Russ had to back up the jeep in order for us to get a good picture.
Durango Riverside Resort is one of our favorite places to stay -- been stayingthere since Jenni and Rod were still at home and taking vacations with us! The day after the winter storm came through, the mountain behind the campground was
white.
Early in the week we took a day trip to Silverton and, once again, marvelled at the beauty of the changing leaves. It is absolutely awesome to see whole mountainsides bursting out in autumn colors.
Earlier this summer we tried to go to one of our favorite places a few miles out of Silverton - Clear Lake - at an altitude of 11,998 ft., but were unable to get there because of snow. We made it this time and as we started back down the mountain, the white stuff started to fall! Nancy's picking out a rock at the top of the mountain to bring home - we write the name of the area and the altitude on the rock and plan to place it somewhere in our yard at home.
We nearly had a collision with the train one evening as we were looking for wildlife. In our intense viewing, we forgot this particular crossing is on a country road and has no warning lights or signals. It wasn't until the engineer blasted the whistle that we realized he was so close.
3 comments:
So those "pet" rocks in your yard have a purpose! Make sure Abby doesn't get a hold of them.
Those trees are amazing! Beautiful!!
I forgot to tell you that we will be having funnel cakes at our fall festival. Hopefully they will be as good!
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