These photos were taken by Blake Wood during the event (note the time stamp on some of the photos). Captions for each photo are shown below. They are combined 5-7 jpeg photos per web page. These pages range between 250kb and 350kb.
If anyone has any other photos they would like to contribute to this page, please send them as a binary email attachment to Blake Wood, bwood@lanl.gov, or mail a copy to Blake at 1146 Big Rock Loop, Los Alamos, NM 87544. They will gladly be returned if you ask.
The start.Kamm Traverse to Oscars Pass
Leaving Silverton.
Crossing Mineral Creek.
Craig Wilson on the Bear Creek Trail.
Fred Vance on the Putnam Divide. Grant-Swamp Pass is in the far background.
Blake Wood leaving the Kamm Traverse aide station.Oscars Pass to Virginius Pass
Scott Hirst ascending Grant-Swamp Pass. Compare this photo with the same view in 1999 to see the difference between a heavy and light snow year.
A runner tries to figure out if this is really the way down.
Rebecca Clark looking toward Oscars Pass.
Blake Wood and Mark Heaphy enter the Chapman Gulch aide station (photo supplied by Mark Heaphy).
Looking back at Grant-Swamp from low on the Oscars Pass ascent.
Looking down toward Telluride.Virginius Pass to Engineer Pass
The Telluride aid station from low on the Virginius Pass ascent. We came down that canyon from Oscars Pass.
Virginius Pass from Mendota Saddle.
Randy Isler on the final scramble up Virginius Pass.
Randy Isler in the Virginius Pass aide station.
Blake Wood prepares to glissade down from Virginius Pass (photo by Dave Cooper).
The first glissade pitch down Virginius Pass.
The road down to Governor Basin and Ouray far beyond.Handies Peak to the finish
Ouray.
Mark Heaphy and Dave Scudder leaving Ouray.
Mark Heaphy crossing the Uncompahgre River.
Blake Wood at the start of the Bear Creek Trail.
Blake Wood in upper Bear Creek.
Dave Scudder at the ruins of the Yellow Jacket Mine.
Blake Wood near the summit of Handies Peak, 3am. Note the falling, blowing snow.
Early the second day, heading down to Pole Creek.
Blake Wood in the Pole Creek aide station (photo by John Fowler).
The Pole Creek aide station crew. That's Lisa Richardson and John Fowler on the left.
Rebecca Clark on a typical wet section of trail between Arrastra Gulch and the finish.
Silverton and the finish come into view!