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Early Summer 2015 Vacation: A Pic a Day (more or less)

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Last week, Maggie and I embarked on a localish road trip, a four-day outing to northern Colorado, the close corner of Utah, and southwestern Wyoming.  Below, a few of the highlights. Here are Maggie and Walter, hanging out along Mad Creek, just north of Steamboat.  This pic is from Day 2.  On Day 1 we hiked a bit among snow drifts on the Rabbit Ears Peak trail near Dumont Lake, watched paddle-board rodeo at the Yampa River Festival in downtown Steamboat, and stayed with Maggie's former students Wil and Sarah at a ranch house near Clark, CO. After the Mad Creek trail hike, we headed west towards Dinosaur National Monument, stopping for a little hike near Cross Mountain before descending ~2500' feet at DNM from the rim of the canyon to the confluence of the Yampa and Green Rivers at Echo Park.  Here's a pic at Echo Park Campground, backgrounded by epic Steamboat Rock: On Day 3, after the 12-mile drive back up the gravel road from Echo Park, we drove around to th