{"id":10021,"date":"2024-10-09T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2024-10-08T22:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T05:47:32","slug":"fall-colors-colorado-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/09\/fall-colors-colorado-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colors, Colorado — 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A couple of weeks ago, I made a trip to the Gunnison area to experience the Fall Colors. Here is a selection of some of my images.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fall Colors, Ohio Creek Valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Ohio Creek and Ohio Pass are some of my favorite locations to make photographs of the Aspen forests and fall colors.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sun Star Along Forest Road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This is one of the forest roads that pass through an Aspen forest near Mill Castle.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aspens Along Forest Road, Mill Castle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At the base of the Ohio Pass are these red Aspen trees.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Red Aspen At Ohio Pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I visited Ohio Pass several times during the two days at Gunnison. The afternoon sunlight lit up the golden leaves behind the tree trunks in the Aspen forest.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aspen Forest On Ohio Pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

During an early morning visit to Mill Castle, I found this chipmunk perched on a fence post.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chipmunk Near Mill Castle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Close to the base of Ohio Pass is an irrigation ditch that had been shut off for the fall and winter seasons. Fortunately, there was still some water trapped in the ditch; I found one spot that reflected the golden colors of the Aspen trees in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aspen Reflections In Irrigation Ditch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At the end of the last day, I made my way through Ohio Pass and stopped at the Beaver Ponds trailhead. It is a short hike to the ponds, where I made this image that includes one of the ponds and golden Aspens.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Beaver Pond And Aspen Forest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here is another image of the mixture of colors that are typically found during the fall. Most of the Aspens turn from green to golden yellow. But there are some the turn from green to orange and red.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aspen Forest Above Beaver Ponds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Returning to the trailhead, I found a shaft of sunlight that lit up some of the plants growing on the forest floor.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Catching The Sunlight, Beaver Ponds Hike.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I made a trip to the Gunnison area to experience the Fall Colors. Here is a selection of some of my images. The Ohio Creek and Ohio Pass are some of my favorite locations to make photographs of the Aspen forests and fall colors. This is one of the forest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[240,1944,1945,302,239,251,1850,13,1946,1663,211,9,236,212],"class_list":{"0":"post-10021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-aspen","8":"tag-beaver-ponds","9":"tag-chipmunk","10":"tag-ditch","11":"tag-fall-colors","12":"tag-forest","13":"tag-forest-road","14":"tag-gold","15":"tag-irrigation","16":"tag-ohio-pass","17":"tag-orange","18":"tag-red","19":"tag-trees","20":"tag-yellow"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2BD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10039,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}