Must Fish

Laid back Halloween here at Les and Kathy's,  their grandson, Jaxen 16mo, came over as James Bond and Les took him around to the neighbors where he was quite a success.  Earlier today Les and I checked out the new Orvis shop here and a local fly shop, so we have new stuff to take to the stream Tues.  Tomorrow Teri and I go back to Evergreen for the afternoon.  Fall is treating the Denver area well, it was over 70 today clear and calm.

Here is some shots of the drive from Albuquerque to Pueblo via Angel Fire.

Antelope on the wrong side of the fence didn't seem to realize how easily they could jump the fence.

 We stopped at the Vietnam memorial at Angel Fire.  It was the site of the beginning of a documentary film that featured Jim Coleman and the family of a friend of ours from our unit in Vietnam who died shortly after I left.  The film is titled "In The Shadow of The Blade" and is quite stirring.  They restored a Huey and flew it around the country to let survivors of KIA vets ride in it to experience a common link all Vietnam vets had.  The unique WOP WOP of that rotor blade.  Here's a link to the web site about the movie.   click here  I ordered a new copy of the DVD as I left my old one with the VA in Kenai

Vietnam memorial at Angel Fire

Some cool over passes north of Santa Fe

 Hope you all had a great Halloween!

Safe in Parker

We took two days to get from Albuquerque to Denver.  We decided that I should take the tram ride out of Albuquerque up to Sandia Peak by myself.  So Teri stayed at the base station while I made the 50 min round trip with instructions to take pictures.  The Tram rises nearly 4000 ft in 15 minutes.  With only two towers between, the span between tower two and the top is 1 1/2 miles and the highest point above the ground would clear the Eiffel Tower. Here is a link to more details should you be interested.  click here
Here is a quick fact sheet.fact sheet  Here are a few pics.

Starting at the top, this is the ski area on the back side.

About 1/3 of the view from the deck.  The black line in the middle is a shadow from a contrail.

View from car just before docking at the top.  Can you find the shadow of the car?

View between tower two and top.  The black line on the left is the jet contrail shadow.

View from just below tower one.  Contrail shadow is mostly horizontal here.

Base station

Gotta go to breakfast, show you the rest of the trip later.