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.

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

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

Until we got to the Silver Jack Reservoir. 

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

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

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

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