{"id":8507,"date":"2019-06-25T21:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T04:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2019-06-25T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T04:46:44","slug":"summer-snow-storm-near-guanella-pass-wk-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/summer-snow-storm-near-guanella-pass-wk-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Snow Storm Near Guanella Pass — wk 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This last weekend was the first week of summer. Friday was the Summer Solstice. With the low temperatures over the weekend, it was more like a Winter Solstice! Anyway, we had plenty of overcast weather with rain at the weekend. Also, snow was forecast in the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally, I had planned to head up to Mt. Evans, but the road was closed — probably because of the weather and the wind. So I headed over the Guanella Pass. Heading up the pass from Georgetown, the road follows South Clear Creek. I stopped to make some images of the creek at a location where I found some orange gravels in the creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is an aspen forest, with fresh new green leaves, close to the location. Yes. No snow-storm and no creek!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0028-Early-Season-Aspen-Forest-In-Guanella-Pass\"
Early Season Aspen Forest In Guanella Pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

With all the snow that we have had this last year, the rivers were flowing strongly. This creek was no exception, with trees under water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0014-South-Clear-Creek-With-Orange-Gravels\"
South Clear Creek With Orange Gravels.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Above this spot, the creek splits into two forks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0019-Fork-In-The-South-Clear-Creek-Guanella-Pass\"
Fork In The South Clear Creek, Guanella Pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Heading farther up the pass, one can hear the waters rushing down the creek. I this log bridge close to some small waterfalls by the roadside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0032-Log-Bridge-Over-South-Clear-Creek\"
Log Bridge Over South Clear Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Farther upstream, the creek makes its way around a bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0038-Bend-In-South-Clear-Creek.\"
Bend In South Clear Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And then flows past this large boulder before heading down by the log bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0042-Boulder-In-South-Clear-Creek-Guanella-Pass\"
Boulder In South Clear Creek, Guanella Pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Higher up the pass, beavers have been busy over the years constructing dams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0044-Beaver-Dam-On-South-Clear-Creek\"
Beaver Dam On South Clear Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Over the summit of the pass, a snow storm was busy over Geneva Peak. During the course of the afternoon, the storm was busy dumping snow. At the roadside, there were occasional flurries, but it was not cold enough to stick to the roadway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0047-Summer-Snow-Storm-Near-Geneva-Peak\"
Summer Snow Storm Near Geneva Peak.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Farther down the pass, the Geneva Creek was full of snow melt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0086-Giant-Boulder-Along-Geneva-Creek\"
Giant Boulder Along Geneva Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At this location, a few feet from the creek, the flow of the water was quite deafening!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2333-0095-Water-Rushing-Down-Geneva-Creek\"
Water Rushing Down Geneva Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, we have not reached the peak of the snow melt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This last weekend was the first week of summer. Friday was the Summer Solstice. With the low temperatures over the weekend, it was more like a Winter Solstice! Anyway, we had plenty of overcast weather with rain at the weekend. Also, snow was forecast in the mountains. Originally, I had planned to head up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"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":[4],"tags":[1005,1035,90,1624,1038,689],"class_list":{"0":"post-8507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-project52","7":"tag-beaver-pond","8":"tag-clear-creek","9":"tag-creek","10":"tag-geneva-creek","11":"tag-guanella-pass","12":"tag-snow-storm"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2dd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507","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=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8516,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}