Stats for the day:
· 9090 steps (on pedometer)
· 40°F at 5am at 8820
· Highest elevation reached during the day: 8160 feet on hike to High Point on the Warner Nature Trail in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
· Bighorn Sheep Spotted: 1
· Cute little prairie dog that ran under my car tire: 1
· Poisonous Plants Eaten: 1 (I ate Yellow Columbine, with my mother’s encouragement. We only learned it was poisonous after the fact from a book in the Visitor’s Center.
Our day started at 5am this morning with the moon still out and looking amazing. It looked just like you might think it would on a cool day in the mountains in Colorado. We drove to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, still within Colorado.
Then, we headed in the direction of Durango, CO via the Million Dollar Highway (and Ouray and Silverton). I’m not going to lie; that may be the most difficult road I’ve ever driven. And it made my palms extremely sweaty. It was beautiful, but one of those drives on this trip will be enough! We’ll be in Durango, for the next day and a half, staying with one of my mom’s best friends (one of the famous Babes), Diana.
Math thoughts for today:
· Water eroded volcanic rock that had filled in the Gunnison Uplift at a rate of 1 inch per century to create the Black Canyon. Won’t that be fun to figure out how many years it’d take to erode the just your height.
· Volume and force of the Gunnison River
· Engineering of the Million Dollar Highway (surveying involved, why was road built how it was, etc)
· Slope, or gradients, of roads
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