Colorado Rocks
No, I’m not referring to the music scene in this particular US State, where we have spent the last two months in our fifth wheel trailer. Nor am I saying that the bands we heard at the Leadville BBQ and Brewfest a few weekends ago weren’t pretty good either (though not quite on a par with those we heard at Austin’s annual music festival in February). Though I must add that the natural Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver which hosts concerts of all types, is an amazing music venue. Yes - that's it in the middle of those rocks - you can just make out the seating area No, what I am referring to is the Rockies. The highest mountain range in the USA, and the youngest mountains formed in the recent eons of time, if my high school Geography serves me correctly. That is about the limit of my geological education. Suffice to say that these mountains, which extend from Mexico through Canada to Alaska, were crushed and pushed skywards and consequently weathered by win...