Durango, Colorado
posted in Field Trip!, Geology, GigaPan |No time to write much because I’m off to Medicine Lodge, Kansas tomorrow to shoot a couple of GigaPans in the Gypsum Hills.
So I’ll leave you with another GigaPan image shot during my most recent excursion through Colorado. It’s the view of downtown Durango, Colorado and its surrounding hills as seen from the campus of Fort Lewis College, home of Kim Hannula of All My Faults are Stress Related. I enjoyed a nice dinner with Kim and her son when we passed through. I know they’ve been busy moving into town this summer – I wonder if her new place is in the field of view?
Plenty of Mancos Shale in view for all you friends of the Colorado Plateau, as well as a good chunk of the Mesa Verde Group. I wish I had geology like that within view of my campus…
Durango, Colorado from the campus of Fort Lewis College
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Nah – my house is the opposite direction from this view. I would like to pass this on to our sedimentologist, though – he had a thesis student measuring sections on Smelter Mountain (with the antennas on it), and the sections should all be visible there. (Then he’ll ask you to do one of the Hermosa Cliffs south of Purgatory/Durango Mountain Resort, where he’s working on teasing out the architectures of a delta/carbonate system.)
Your gigapans are fantastic. And congrats on the New York Times article!
I would love to put a link to the full screen shot of your gigapan on my website. Let me know if that’s ok. I can put a link to your blog as well if you’d like.
I spent some time IN durango, and I can honestly say it was not enough time…there’s so much good geology there, so much to see.
your gigapan really brought back the memories. THe natural gas drilling they are doing out in the san juan basin there is interesting to see as they are employing “green” technologies…with little to no environmental impact to the drilling, pretty cool to see in action.
cool stuff.
Hi Durango
I live in Redstone Colorado. I have been wanting to move to Durango for some time now. I am a single woman and let’s face it living up here is getting difficult plus it is lonely. Do you know of any web site that connects prople so I can get more information about where to look for housing ect. I do not know much about the town. It is just to very cold here in Redstone. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
Thank You kathryn
I can be reached at katematsondesign@aol.com