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Black Canyon

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park	Mark and Vance	Into the depths
Pretty Flowers on overlook trail	Sunset Point	Sheer 2000 ft walls
River rapids below	'Painted Wall'	Looks like dragons
Sunset Point in daytime	View from Visitor Center	Walking to the boat ride on old railroad grade
Pointing out something interesting	View of Morrow Point Reservoir	Our ride awaits!
Waiting on the dock	Vance on the boat	Waterfall
Another view	Curecanti Needle Info	Curecanti Needle
Curecanti Needle	Another view of Curecanti Needle	Mouth of Curecanti Creek - we hiked there the next day
Curecanti Creek again	View of lake	Vance and Denise
Looking back	The boat	Vance on stern
Old narrow gauge engine at Cimarron	Train	Blue Mesa Dam
Pioneer Point Overlook	Trailhead	Curecanti Needle from trailhead
On observation point	The lake from the trailhead - this is where we took the boat ride yesterday	View down to Curecanti Creek
Edge of the canyon. The pack belt makes me look fat!	View of lake	Vance and Denise, resting
Halfway down!	Crossing the creek	Curecanti Creek - very lush!
Top of the cascades	Down we go	More cascades
and more....	Near the bottom	Cross the creek again
Closeup	All three of us	Resting on the bridge
Looking back up the creek	More rapids	Canyon walls above
View near the bottom	View below the bridge	Falls at the bottom
Entering the lake	Looking out toward the lake	Vance on bridge
Vance and Denise - Vance was el speedo hiking back up	Pretty flowers	View back at the top
Looking down on where we just were	The long cascade, from up top