Nik J Miles

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Telluride, Colo. — As the small twin-engine prop plane circled on final approach to the Telluride (Colorado) Region Airport, I began to get a sense what the next three days would be like.  Located at 9,070 feet above sea level, this is the highest commercial airport in North America, and about 50 yards to the south of the runway, I saw that the mesa drops more than 1,000 feet to the valley below – frightening and beautiful all at the same time.

The next morning Bob Burns, Land Rover’s chief driving instructor, and the head of our Colorado expedition, began briefing the 16 members of our expedition, telling us we would be driving about 80 miles in two days.  We would be on paved highways for about 15 miles and the rest would be dirt, rock and an occasional stream.  What he failed to say was that the last couple of miles of the trip we would be dropping about 2,000 feet down the face of a cliff. Read the rest of this entry »