Colorado Day 6 - Steamboat
Steamboat - the mountain
As Katie said - whenever you get 80 degrees on the mountain (26C), you get a thunderstorm. Usually this does not happen until afternoon. So we got an early start this day as the weather was looking pretty potent from the beginning of the day. The lifts were running, so we took the gondola up.
The lift did not get us above treeline, but there was a nice nature trail.
Unfortunately we had to scramble when we heard the three hoots of the gondola horn. An awe inspiring storm was upon us.
The gondola does not run in rain, much less lightening. We had lunch to wait out the storm. Some of our fellow trapped hikers were shuttled down the mountain by bus, 30 people at a time. But we were fortunate enough to get the lift.
As Katie said - whenever you get 80 degrees on the mountain (26C), you get a thunderstorm. Usually this does not happen until afternoon. So we got an early start this day as the weather was looking pretty potent from the beginning of the day. The lifts were running, so we took the gondola up.
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| Steamboat gondola on the way up |
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| Populus on the trail |
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| Androsace on the trail |
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| Clematis scrambling through the brush |
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| Delphiniums in the ditch |
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| Hydrophyllum |
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| Lupines were just beginning to bloom |
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| Mahonia tucked into a crevice |
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| Physaria in the open boulder field |
The gondola does not run in rain, much less lightening. We had lunch to wait out the storm. Some of our fellow trapped hikers were shuttled down the mountain by bus, 30 people at a time. But we were fortunate enough to get the lift.
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