Site 10, Gray Mesa
Gray Mesa is a flat plateau between the Colorado River gorge and the San Juan River. This sand/sagebrush topped mesa was easily traversed. It was on Gray Mesa that Olivia Ekelund Larson gave birth to a baby boy during a snowstorm. Mons and Olivia Larson named their newborn John Rio after the San Juan River, which could be seen from the mesa.
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Gray Mesa/San Juan River
Gray Mesa at low altitude
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Trail across Gray Mesa
Gray Mesa with Great Bend of the San Juan River
Gray Mesa/San Juan River
End of Gray Mesa - Slick Rocks
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The Hole-in-the-Rock Foundation Preserving the History and Sharing the Legacy
Friday, Feb. 20th, 1880. "Worked the road yesterday, and today drove 7 miles over a smooth bench close to the banks of the San Juan which runs 1 mile below us in a gorge so deep and with banks so precipitous as to be completely inaccessible, camped at the top of the smooth rock over which we will build a road."
Platte D. Lyman