Michael 7th & 8th Sept. at Montrose

Monday the 7th Sept. started at 9am with a long trip to Gateway a town started by the owner of the Discovery Channel to see an auto museum, the trip took us through Red Rock Canyon, this canyon is spectacular this cliffs on oth sides and a road and river sharing the floor at time the road is high above the river to give a vantage point to look down on the river. the Spanish were the people who came up from Mexico to explore the area. Then mining started in the area and water was very important and so an engineering marvel was created to allow water to be channelled along the sides of the cliff several hundred feet above the floor of the canyon it allowed the water to be quickly delivered to the mine site. Lunch was at Gateway then over to the museum to look at a fantastic display of vintage and classic cars. The return home was via whitewater.

Tuesday 8th Sept.

An early start for Mandy Emma And me as we went fly fishing in the Gunnison River which is at the bottom of a very very deep canyon, the road down was something else, but what a place, fast flowing river, very step sides. We did not have a great success at fly fishing but fish were caught. The presentation to the Montrose Rotary Club was interesting with technical malfunctions made for an interesting times but very well received, after lunch of to see some petrogylphs, with Dick Manhart. The Nth. Ute Indians lived in the area and recorded there Law and information on food and water by chipping designs into the rock, having the designs explained made all the difference to what we were looking at.