Kallispell to Kootenai River / Falls

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ITW = Into The West Journey 

Thursday July 29, 2010 ITW 92 ROAD TRIP !!!

Leave Kalispell Montana heading West on HWY 2 towards Libby, Montana. Made the decision to break off from Glacier National park... abandoned the plan to see Banff. Banff,... the way I wanted to see it would be another 2 months. That will have to be another trip/ Journey.

So it 's now see as much as possible in a month before having to turn back. ROAD TRIP !!! My kinda travel; Let's see what's out there. Into the Kootenai nat forest. And you just run onto spectacular places sometimes. The Kootenai Tribe.... Proud and Noble First Americans. Their history dating back to the begining of Time. Their Tribe charged with the covenant ; To Guard and Keep (Keepers of) The Land Forever. No wonder the name of this territory when seeing how beautiful it is. The Kootenai River is beautiful... then you run onto the Falls.

You Never Drink Twice From the Same Stream !

Trinidad to San Luis Colorado

Trinidad to San Luis st park Colorado

ITW 17


Tuesday May 25 2010 Lake Trinidad Colorado

28* Coffee

Hwy 12 west is a Scenic Byway through the foothills of the Rockies. Beautiful country. Snowcap peaks.

Through Stonewall county some "Flatiron" rock formations. /amazing to see.


Cuchara pass 9,941' elev

Laveta pass ... break out into Plains / arid plain / desert.

Hwy 160 west straight roads down to Plains. sagebrush forever.

Ft Garland. Onto Alamosa. North on hwy 17. pass by a Solar collector plant / project; interesting.

East to San Luis st park. another sign : Great Sand Dunes Nat Park.

Drive through desert. See several "Dirt Devils" ... Cyclone / Twister/ Funnels from sand.

San Luis Lake has a canal leading to irrigate far off ranches.

Snowcap Mtns on other side of Lake are Sangre de Cristo range. Stunningly beautiful in the desert.

Great Sand Dunes are at the bottom of range across Lakes.

San Luis Lake is not from Snowpack runoff down the mountain ridges... Snowpack Melt Sinks INTO mountain , then perocolates down through Sangre de Cristo Mountain range /// through earth, then rises in bowl lake at the bottom of the range. Amazing.

Desert air is thin, cool. Wind 10 -12. Clear.































Trinidad to San Luis st park Colorado

ITW 17


Tuesday May 25 2010 Lake Trinidad Colorado

28* Coffee

Hwy 12 west is a Scenic Byway through the foothills of the Rockies. Beautiful country. Snowcap peaks.

Through Stonewall county some "Flatiron" rock formations. /amazing to see.


Cuchara pass 9,941' elev

Laveta pass ... break out into Plains / arid plain / desert.

Hwy 160 west straight roads down to Plains. sagebrush forever.

Ft Garland. Onto Alamosa. North on hwy 17. pass by a Solar collector plant / project; interesting.

East to San Luis st park. another sign : Great Sand Dunes Nat Park.

Drive through desert. See several "Dirt Devils" ... Cyclone / Twister/ Funnels from sand.

San Luis Lake has a canal leading to irrigate far off ranches.

Snowcap Mtns on other side of Lake are Sangre de Cristo range. Stunningly beautiful in the desert.

Great Sand Dunes are at the bottom of range across Lakes.

San Luis Lake is not from Snowpack runoff down the mountain ridges... Snowpack Melt Sinks INTO mountain , then perocolates down through Sangre de Cristo Mountain range /// through earth, then rises in bowl lake at the bottom of the range. Amazing.

Desert air is thin, cool. Wind 10 -12. Clear.