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Colorado Trip
« on: August 04, 2009, 10:08:18 PM »
Went to Colorado with my wife's family for a wedding over the past weekend.    Here are some of the pictures from the trip.  Pics aren't as good as a lot of people's on this site, but I just thought I'd show you some of the country and views we saw.  

How wide?








Some elk (Rocky Mountain National Park):








A marmot:




Some misc hiking pictures:




From the top of a 12,979' peak (Mt. Toll):




I'll also attach some more misc pics that give some more impressions of the trip.  Overall, the trip was a ton of fun and we got to see a lot of really pretty country.  We say many elk, including some very large bulls I was not able to get pictures of and two bachelor herds of deer.  
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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2009, 10:27:10 PM »
Nice pics! :tup: Thats wide buck has gotta be pushing 30 inches from G3 to G3.
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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2009, 10:30:08 PM »
nice pictures Shane, looks like a fun trip.

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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2009, 11:02:00 PM »
sweet pics

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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2009, 11:16:04 PM »
Awesome Shane!  That buck is awesome, I would guess 31" - 32"   That's just how he looks to me.  
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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2009, 11:23:45 PM »
Looks like a fun trip, that bucks in the 30" range
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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2009, 11:28:49 PM »
Thanks for working on the Bachelor Herd pic Phool.

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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2009, 11:59:28 PM »
That's one heck of a buck there, Shane.  Thanks for posting these - they bring back memories of when I saw some monster mulies in Colorado.   Were the Mule Deer in Rocky Mountain National Park?  I know you said the elk were photographed there, so I was wondering if that was also the mulie's hangout.  I'd love to be able to get to RMNP in September for the elk rut.
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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2009, 04:02:20 AM »
looks like a great trip shane thanks for sharing it
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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2009, 08:09:31 AM »
That's one heck of a buck there, Shane.  Thanks for posting these - they bring back memories of when I was some monster mulies in Colorado.   Were the Mule Deer in Rocky Mountain National Park?  I know you said the elk were photographed there, so I was wondering if that was also the mulie's hangout.  I'd love to be able to get to RMNP in September for the elk rut.

No actually, the mulies were all on public land.  I checked the regs and they are all in public land open season units.  Pretty neat actually. 

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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2009, 10:28:34 AM »
looks like a hell of a trip. great pics man. I like that rock spire.

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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2009, 06:38:32 PM »
Awesome pics Shane! I think I'd pass out if I saw a buck that big during hunting season :chuckle:

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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2009, 06:44:38 PM »
Looks like one hell of a trip.
Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Colorado Trip
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2009, 07:10:16 PM »
use the boneaddicts math to figure out his spread............I think it works pretty good...........

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Re: Colorado Trip
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use the boneaddicts math to figure out his spread............I think it works pretty good...........

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