I have a bunch of pictures from the past few days. We went to Black Canyon near Montrose, CO. We also went to Leadville, CO (a mining town) and stayed at a supposedly haunted hotel. We've started to talk about mining minerals and the economic/political/etc. issues involved. We also went to the mining museum. Cool stuff:)

Me at Black Canyon

Pegmatite (white igneous rock) in the precambrain (darker) - forms 2 dragons!

Me at Black Canyon again!! (Deeper than the height of the Empire State Building)

We drove a lot:)

"The best geology is done on the hood of a car or on a napkin in a restaurant." - Professor Dunkhase

A geology birthday cake - complete with the dragons from a previous picture and the Morrison Formation on the right (sandstone=yellow, red and green = shale; from Jurassic Period). And gneiss (said "nice")= a kind of precambrian rock... lots of jokes made from that:)

Love the continental divide passes:)

An old mine (from the 1800s) above Leadville, CO.

A pretty church in downtown Leadville, CO. (about 10,200 ft elevation)

Sun setting over Mt. Crested Butte (from our condo:))

The sky as the sun sets - awesome:)