Drive to Split Mountain

This afternoon LaRue and I took off for a little drive. We found ourselves heading east out of town and to drive out toward the Dinosaur Quarry and Split Mountain. We pulled down to the boat ramp and took a few pictures of the rocks and water.

Here's me down at the boat ramp:









Some shots down the river:







LaRue sitting on a rock:





Further down the river we pulled into a view area for these pictures:









The more yellowish rock in these two pictures is the one across from the boat ramp:





We got a picture of a jet flying east (maybe toward Denver):



There is a little spot along the road with some petroglyphs:





Looking east from the petroglyphs:



Just a couple of craggy rock formations as we drove to the quarry:







And here is the newly re-opened Dinosaur Quarry where you go in and see bones being excavated from the rock:



An interesting contrast of rocks on the drive out of the National Monument area:



And that was our little excursion today.

I am working on some of the Christmas pictures and hope to have them posted in the next few days.