A Rocky Mountain Christmas Ride

On Christmas morning we awoke in Golden, Colorado and started west into the Rocky Mountains.

Again, the weather was perfect, as we drove up Interstate 70 toward Utah.

However, we soon started seeing signs of the white stuff.

This mine shaft, above, showed us what was to come as we drove to the higher elevations.

These condos in the Vail area were beautiful to see tucked into the hillside.

We stopped to use a rest area above 10,000 ft.  That is Karen on the left walking up to the building,

Here is the sidewalk to the bathroom.  Now this felt like a true Christmas setting.

There was some snow on the roads but the skies were clear so travel was not difficult and the scenery was special.

As we drove down the western side of the mountains the snow was gone and the temperature again rose into the low 40's.  We hit great weather to cross the Great Divide this Holy Day.

Tuesday night we checked into a Comfort Inn in Richfield, Utah, after seeing, firsthand, what the late John Denver used to sing about.

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