After spending far longer than originally intended getting from Monte Vista to Montrose, I made haste for a quick sunset stop in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. It was still raining, but these mountain showers seemed so intermittent, I just hoped it’d work out.
That was fairly perfect timing. Something that photos of this place don’t seem to capture well is the depth of this canyon — it is not wide but it is 1700 to 2700 feet deep through the park. The river itself drops 95 feet per mile in this canyon.
And as the rains lifted at sunset, I looked behind me and found something stunning.
Lol… sorry I had to.
Hereto was unfolded view after view of the most wonderful, the most thrilling of rock exposures, one vanishing from view only to be replaced by another still more imposing. A view which could easily be made into a Scottish Feudal Castle would be followed by another suggesting the wildest parts of imposing height and majestic propotions.
H.C. Wright, member of the 1882 Byron Bryant railroad survey.
(Or so a placard at the overlook explained to me. 🙃)