Volume 7 , Issue 35

SW Colorado -- We spent last weekend up at Vallecito and spotted this Eagle sitting on it's nest high atop a dead tree in the San Juan mountains near Vallecito Lake. We forgot to put on our zoom lens to get a close-up.

For some of you who didn't know... Vallecito was never an actual town. It was a valley where the Los Pinos and the Vallecito Rivers join. The closest thing to a town was in 1800s when the tiny settlement of Los Pinos was located about eight miles to the south of present day Vallecito near the Pine River. It consisted of a stage stop, post office, flourmill, and one house. The post ofice began 1877 through 1898, when Bayfield was laid out and a post office was moved to Bayfield in 1898.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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