Grand! Mesa

Wednesday was back to tour time. The goal for the day was to get halfway across Colorado to Gunnision, which we did via a drive over Grand Mesa. The Mesa was by far grander than the Junction, averaging an altitude of 10,000 feet and covering hundreds of square miles with almost as many small lakes. Being a native Californian, I expected the mesa to be barren of trees at that altitude, but in Colorado the treeline is around 12,000 feet. The mesa was beautiful, covered with trees and in full bloom with mountain wildflowers. We stopped a few times to look at the views, and had lunch alongside a lake. Shane went swimming again while Kevin and I tried our luck (unsucessfully) at catching some fish.