Churchill Trip : August 17-31, 2023

Part 5 - Saratoga to San Diego

August 30: Saratoga WY to Marble Canyon AZ

After flying around the surrounding peaks, I made a fuel stop in Telluride and took a courtesy car into town, where a weekend film festival was being set up.

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Red-winged Blackbird
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison

Whitehouse Mountain (?)
Mt. Sneffels
There's a climber on the mountain!
Telluride Airport

Above Telluride Ski Resort
Silver Mountain and Ulysses S Grant Peak
Island Lake
Fuller Peak, Vermilion Peak

Ice Lake
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Wilson Peak, aka the Coors Light mountain

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Lone Cone
Navajo Mountain
Lake Powell

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Horseshoe Bend
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Navajo Bridge
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August 30-31: Condors at the Navajo Bridge

I stopped for the day at Marble Canyon to visit the California Condors. 20% of the AZ/UT population succumbed to the avian flu earlier this year, leaving about 100 in the wild flock here. :( 10 were at the bridge during this visit. Condors marked with *'s were seen during my previous visits in 2019 and 2021.

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#X8, M, born 2018 in Boise
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#54*, M, born 2004 in Boise
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#19*, M, born 2011 in Boise
#V7, M, born 2017 in the wild
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Moonrise
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#09*, F, born 2016 in San Diego

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#Y1, M, born 2019 in the wild

#Z3, M, born 2020 in the wild
#R8, M, born 2015 in Portland OR
#T9*, M, born 2016 in the wild at Vermilion Cliffs
R8 actually started it...

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#44, F, born 2016 in Boise

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Hacking up a pellet
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Awkward landing

T9 keeps following V7 around
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August 31: Marble Canyon AZ to San Diego CA

via Flagstaff

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Bagdad Copper Mine
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Parker Dam