San Juan Mountains – PMags.com https://pmags.com Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, packrafting, and camping. Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:08:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pmags.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-fav-ico-160x160.jpg San Juan Mountains – PMags.com https://pmags.com 32 32 81463906 Into the San Juans https://pmags.com/into-the-san-juans https://pmags.com/into-the-san-juans#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:16:47 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=31236 Into the San Juans

Another weekend to the nearby San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Read More ...

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Joan and I enjoy a delightful San Juans trip during the waning days of summer. Read More ...

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Some solo time in the San Juan mountains over the 4th of July holiday. Read More ...

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Backpacking in the San Juans over the solstice weekend. Read More ...

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More San Juans bliss. Perhaps our last weekend this year in my favorite Colorado Range? Read More ...

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A smoky weekend exploring more of the San Juan Mountains. Read More ...

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A classic weekend backpacking on a stick, to a loop, and back again in the not-so-distant San Juan Mountains. Read More ...

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A trip to the San Juans mountains of Colorado - fewer than three hours away. But a world of a difference. Read More ...

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There are many areas in this continent where I long to return and explore more:  Maine in the fall. The Wind River Range of Wyoming. The red rock country of Utah. The High Sierra. The Canadian Rockies.

All areas of intense beauty. All areas that call to see, hear, smell and experience more.

But there is one area in my adopted home that always calls to me. An area full of tall peaks, high passes without any names, alpine lakes of an intense blue, where mountain goats roam and the tundra is a riot of color with summer wildflowers.

This places is the San Juan mountains of Colorado.

And I always want to return.

 

someone notices how happy, relaxed and calm I seem after even a weekend in the mountains. Any stresses from work seem to go away. I am re-centered. And everything is put in perspective again: It is just a job.

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