We TOOK OFF at a Fast Pace —- Sunday, June 15, 2025

We’ve been doing hay in the morning, noon, and evening! We are tired and needed a change of scenery.

We looked at our hay requests. We have a time slot for a small break, maybe three or four hours.

So off we went through Montrose, Colorado, to Log Hill Mesa. I’ve wanted to go there forever!
(Check out the blue words for more information)

After we made it over the top, we hit Dallas Divide;  we were in Ridgeway, Colorado

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There we stopped for a hamburger.

The True Grit Cafe- named after John Wayne’s Movie…

As a little sidebar thought—True Grit, with John Wayne, was filmed on Owl Creek Pass. Just out of Ridgeway!

How cool is that!

We made it home in a nice enough time to load out some more hay.

KAIROS (n):  The perfect, delicate, crucial moment; the fleeting rightness of time and place that creates the opportune atmosphere for action, words, or movement.

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

Owl Creek Pass

Evelation

I’ve been wanting to take you on another one of the passes not far from where we live.  This one is right outside of Ridgeway, Colorado

one hour from our house.  It is called Owl Creek pass.  Elevation is over 10,000 feet.

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We travel through the Saw Tooth Mountains and around to the otherside of said mountains

 

Saw-Tooth-Ridge

There we stopped and played in the creek (and ate lunch).

Throw-Me-A-ROCK

Until we got to the Silver Jack Reservoir. 

Owl-Creek-Pass

Some of our irrigation water comes from the Silver Jack, some from the Ridgeway Dam,

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but most of the water comes out of Taylor Reservoir above Gunnison into Blue Mesa Dam.

You-are-Here

We then headed home over Cimaron Pass into Cimaron, Colorado.

The-other-side-of-Saw-Tooth

That’s the mountains we were just in, way back there in the back…those little blue peaks.

Happy New Year to One and All

our-anniversary

You are looking at a ranch just out of Ridgeway, Colorado, with a snowstorm in the San Juan Mountains.

See you Monday, January 5, 2009!

Linda and Terry