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CO -- Colorado Natl Monument:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. COLONM_710004_04.JPG: Balanced Rock
2. COLONM_710004_08.JPG: Monument Canyon
3. COLONM_710004_12.JPG: Monument Canyon
4. COLONM_710004_16.JPG: Box Canyon
5. COLONM_710004_20.JPG: Artist's Point
6. COLONM_710004_24.JPG: Coke Ovens
7. COLONM_710004_28.JPG: Monument Canyon Trail
8. COLONM_710004_32.JPG: Kissing Couple
9. COLONM_710004_36.JPG: Independence Monument
10. COLONM_710004_42.JPG: Window Rock and West
11. COLONM_710004_48.JPG: Window Rock and West
12. COLONM_710004_52.JPG: Window Rock and West
13. COLONM_710004_56.JPG: Window Rock
14. COLONM_710004_60.JPG: Window Rock
15. COLONM_710004_65.JPG: Painted Lizard
16. COLONM_710004_70.JPG: Painted Lizard
17. COLONM_710004_76.JPG: Monument Canyon
18. COLONM_710004_80.JPG: Artist Point and Coke Ovens
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Wikipedia Description: Colorado National Monument
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Colorado National Monument (often simply referred to as The Monument) is a part of the National Park Service near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado, in the western part of the state. It is a semi-desert land high on the Colorado Plateau. The area hosts a wide range of wildlife, including pinyon pines, juniper trees, ravens, jays, Desert Bighorn Sheep, and coyotes. Activities include hiking trails, horseback riding, mountain biking, and scenic drives through the park. There are magnificent views from trails and the Rim Rock Drive, which winds along the plateau. Nearby are the Book Cliffs, and the largest flat-topped mountain in the world, the Grand Mesa.

Its feature attraction is Monument Canyon, which runs the length of the park, and includes rock formations such as Independence Monument, Window Rock, and Coke Ovens. The monument includes 20,500 acres (32 square miles), much of which has been recommended to Congress for designation as wilderness.

Park History:

The area was first explored by John Otto, a drifter who settled in Grand Junction in the early 20th century. Prior to Otto's arrival, many area residents believed the canyons to be inaccessible to humans. Otto began building trails on the plateau and into the canyons. As word spread about his work, the Chamber of Commerce of Grand Junction sent a delegation to see what he was doing. The delegation returned praising both Otto's work and the scenic beauty of the wilderness area. The local newspaper began lobbying to make it a National Park.

The area was established as Colorado National Monument on May 24, 1911. Otto was hired as the first park ranger, drawing a salary of $1 per month. For the next 16 years, he continued building and maintaining trails while living in a tent in the park.

Trails:

The Monument contains many hiking trails, with lengths and difficulties to suit all tastes. Before hiking in the Colorado National ...More...
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1971 photos: From 1966 to 1975, our family lived in Franklin, Michigan while Dad worked for Kelly Services in Detroit. From 1954 to 1975, the bulk of these pictures were taken by my Dad, Glenn Guthrie At the time, he was using a complicated, but normal for the day, manual Kodak with light meters and such. All of Dad's pictures from this time were slides. From 1966 (when I started taking pictures) to 1979, I was using a Kodak Instamatic for most of my photos. From 1966 to 1989, all of my pictures were slides which is what I had grown up on. From 1966 to 1997, I was taking at most a couple of hundred photos a year. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Family trips this year: I rebelled against family trips -- my bedwetting was causing continual trauma for me -- and the family took my cousin Brian Bell with them to Colorado and Utah for the family trip.
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