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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Dale Bowman

Snapshots and vignettes from western Colorado of trout fishing, hiking and sightseeing

A view along the Gold-Medal stretch of the Fryingpan River in western Colorado. (Dale Bowman)

GRAND MESA NATIONAL FOREST, Colorado — Patchy graying snow lingered under the evergreens when Tom Yoder drove us to the top. I was glad to make it there.

As a flatlander, the switchbacks of a mountain road, with no guardrails and a broad view of the Plateau Valley thousands of feet below, tested my mettle.

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