At sometime during my second day in Colorado, my son and his wife decided that due to the smoke from numerous large forest fires in Colorado, it would be best to come south to meet me in the Rio Grande National Forest. So I needed to find a suitable campsite for all of us and scout the forest roads for potential photographic opportunities.
Thus Friday morning I continued to drive along Forest Service Road 250 and spurs off of FSR 250, looking for good campsites, stopping above Platoro Reservoir to shoot a few DSLR photos.
Much snow fell in this area during the early fall storm with much remaining on the mountain peaks and a few patches in shady, lower elevations.
Walking up a hillside, I found large boulders with colorful lichen interspersed with the Aspens.
Aspen tree trunks often have interesting features, but this one, adjacent to one group of boulders, had a major scar.
Another view of two large, lichen covered boulders in the Aspen grove is above.
My main task today was to find another campsite, so I soon moved on to continue that search.
More later,
Ken