Ouray's West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite enters public domain
U.S. Forest Service bought three mining claims in the San Juan Mountains, totaling about 27 acres, where a sauropod trackway was excavated in recent years.
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U.S. Forest Service bought three mining claims in the San Juan Mountains, totaling about 27 acres, where a sauropod trackway was excavated in recent years.
One warm summer day in the 1950s, when Rick Trujillo was about 10 years old, he and some friends were hiking the hills in Ouray when they came upon something
Tuesday, September 19
In 1974, a young trail runner from Ouray stood at the corner of Main Street and Third Avenue, where he liked to start his long runs, and decided to do something no one ever had: run all the way to Telluride over a rough mountain road.
When Rick Trujillo first ran over the Sneffels range from Ouray to Telluride in August of 1974, he never expected to chart what would become one of Colorado’s most famous mountain races. In fact, the event was accidentally created only after he was left stranded on the wrong side of Imogene Pass that fateful day.