Well, as a lot of you know, I enjoy sharing my photos of the adventures I have in my RAV. I decided to start this thread so that I can post my photos in one place.
Today, we went on the Switzerland Trail up in Boulder County. It was a bit too rough for my tastes but the scenery was great!
Again, nice pics! Looking forward to more. When I blow them up the close foregrounds become blurred while the rest is still clear - is that because of an exposure or an f-stop setting, or do you think that it has something to do with the upload resolution? My display is at max. resolution, 1080x1920. The bent-trunk dead tree in the second photo also is very interesting.
I'm not seeing that here, Jim. When I click on the panoramas to enlarge on Flickr, they are sharp front to back with excellent depth of field. I am also running at 1920X1080.
Excellent photos I would love to go there one day.
I never had a focus problem with the first two photos but from then onwards in the second batch flickr first tried to sign me up and when that didn't eventuate it said every photo was private.
Great pics again, and of beautiful landscapes! Do you use a lens filter? Have you gone up the mountain trail shown in pics 4 and 8, or is it climbable with your V6 RAV? As usual, your photos could go well on a Colorado landscape calendar.:wink
Thank you! All of my photos are taken with my iPhone 6. I have taken the iPhone Photography and Photo Editing course so I'm getting better at mastering mobile photography
The trails I was on in photos 4 and 8 would have been easily driven in my RAV, but they were blocked by boulders and open to hiking only.
Thank you! I actually plasti-dipped all badges and my center-caps black I recently peeled the plasti-dip from the Toyota emblems on the center-caps, so they look pretty cool now. I think I might remove the plasti-dip from the front Toyota emblem since it just fades into the black grill. I think it would still look good with my black and silver theme
Great pics again, and of beautiful landscapes! Do you use a lens filter? Have you gone up the mountain trail shown in pics 4 and 8, or is it climbable with your V6 RAV? As usual, your photos could go well on a Colorado landscape calendar.:wink
These are from Weston Pass from last weekend. The west side of the trail was rougher since the last time I drove it (2011). There were sections of large ruts and dips where water and washed away parts of the trail. There were also some fairly large embedded rocks.
Wow! Great pics again, and with a phone camera! When were the shots taken in Rocky Mountain National Park taken and about what is the altitude- there's a fair amount of snow. Also, how is it that your RAV always is so clean even when off-roading - do you have a secret car wash stashed someplace up there?:smile
Thank you Blogson! The RMNP photos were taken June 26th of this year, the snow generally stays up there year round. They were taken from Trail Ridge Road, which tops out at 12,183 feet above sea level. I think it has even snowed up there in July!
I use Wet Paint glaze on the RAV, so she's always pretty shiny. It also helps that she's silver
Here is the snow along Trail Ridge Road. It can get quite a bit deeper/higher than this
Alrighty folks, I went on another adventure this weekend, this time up Jones Pass. This is an easy 4X4 trail that climbs to over 12,000 feet. It was a bit rainy yesterday so it made for some dramatic views of low hanging clouds.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to get all the way to the top due to snow blocking a portion of the trail (and I was too chicken to try and squeeze by).
There were sections of this trail that were steep and the RAV was definitely challenged due to not enough torque, I believe? I can see why low range is needed on more advanced trails.
Alrighty folks, I went on another adventure this weekend, this time up Jones Pass. This is an easy 4X4 trail that climbs to over 12,000 feet. It was a bit rainy yesterday so it made for some dramatic views of low hanging clouds.
There were sections of this trail that were steep and the RAV was definitely challenged due to not enough torque, I believe? I can see why low range is needed on more advanced trails.
Great pics again! But I'm somewhat surprised that since you have a 4WD V6 it apparently had an engine power shortage on some trails even though apparently at 12,000 feet. Mine has done well at 11,000+ feet and on a relatively steep grade, but that was on a paved road. Were you still climbing steeply at the 12,000 foot altitude?
Beautiful photos, but when I click to view them full size, Flikr says they're private. :-( Also, how is it your RAV looks so clean when you're driving on dirt roads?
Absolutely spectacular photos!! I'm bookmarking your thread so I can refer to it when planning future vacations to Colorado and the Rockies . Thanks so much for sharing your adventures!
Just got back from our 3,925 mile trip to/from Colorado for hiking in the high mountains for two weeks. So here are some pics of my RAV and my hiking pals in the Jeep Cherokee.
The roads to the hiking trail-heads were a real challenge, miles and miles of rock, stone, humps, ditches and dust! And these were NOT the 4WD rated roads. We stayed for a week in Ouray, then 8 days in Lake City to hike the San Juan mountain range.
We had to ford one nasty looking stream to get to one trail-head, the stream was about 30 ft wide and 6-8 inches deep and the entrance and exit was really steep. I just turned on 4wd lock and rolled slowly in, it felt like I drove into a hole and was immediately shocked at how much forward momentum I immediately lost! I had to add a lot of power to push through the deep water then up the hill.....very nerve-racking to say the least.
Nice photos!! I don't want to hijack co_mtn_grl's thread, but which roads did you drive near Ouray? I went there earlier this year, just after a storm dropped a bit of snow, so I didn't get to do much hiking or exploring of the roads.
The guy in the Jeep in the pictures led us to the trail-heads so I don't know the names of the roads. We hiked these trails while staying in Ouray: Ouray Perimeter trail, Wetterhorn Basin, Minnie Gulch, Highland Mary Lakes and Ice Lakes. Sometimes we drove a long way to get to a named trail-head. You can google these trail-head names for road details.
We started Ice Lakes in June and got to just after where the trail crosses the meadow below the cliffs and re-enters the trees to switchback up to the lower lake--it was snowed in at that point and we saw a bit of ice tumbling down a nearby avalanche chute.
Good to know you were able to do the Minnie Gulch area in your RAV! That's one I've been considering for a future trip.
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