Indelible images from Southwest Colorado
Brady Flaherty, 6, left, Adalyn Betts, 6, and Taiven Betts, 4, play at the splash pad at the Durango Community Recreation Center. Brady is the son of Chris and Jen Flaherty of Cortez, and Adalyn and Taiven are the children of Taylor and Matt Betts of Cortez.
“I don’t know how much higher I can throw this,” said Joe Felsen as he shoveled snow at his son’s home in the Durango West subdivision.
George Keen, 90, works out with Katy Kopec, owner of The Good Fight Gym Boxing Gym in the Main Mall.
Sariah Archuleta looks out of her isolation cell at La Plata County Jail.
A wolf dog at WolfWood Refuge near Ignacio.
Tufftan Bia, 3, of Arizona dances in the tiny tots category at Fort Lewis College’s Hozhoni Days Powwow in Whalen Gymnasium.
For Colorado Department of Transportation snowplow drivers on U.S. Highway 550 on Red Mountain Pass, the lanes can be narrow and the drop-offs steep.
Sammy Denham, 73, retired after 42 years at Peerless Tires and gas station.
Randy Orris, left, and Dewey Baird hold signs protesting 1041 Regulations in front of the La Plata County Administration Building.
Steve Barkley, code enforcement officer for the city of Durango, talks to Eric Mazock of Texas at his illegal campsite along the Animas River behind Walmart. Barkley told Mazock, who had recently arrived in Durango, he is not allowed to camp in the river corridor. Mazock got out of his hammock and began packing up to leave the site.
Five hundred balloons filled with $500 in prizes were dropped from the skylight area in the Main Mall as part of the Fabulous Fall Red Balloon Event put on by the Business Improvement District. The daylong downtown shopping event was a celebration of downtown businesses.
An air tanker drops slurry on the west side of the 186 Fire burning on Missionary Ridge east of Hermosa.
Lisa McWhorter falls with her horse while rounding a barrel in the barrel racing competition during Fiesta Days at the La Plata County Fairgrounds.
The Animas Amazons compete in the raft slalom race during Animas River Days at the Durango Whitewater Park in Santa Rita Park.
Bayfield High School cheerleader Kaeli Marx, 17, does a backflip before the Durango High School game at BHS.
About 50 riders took part in the Cowboy Poetry Gathering’s Cowboy Poet Trail Ride at Rapp Corral north of Durango.
Irene Barry, an Aztec High School teacher and La Plata County resident, stands in front of the “Aztec Strong Mural.” Barry is on a mission to promote active-shooter training after living through the December 2017 attack at Aztec High School.
Don Wickman clears sidewalks in Bayfield as heavy snow falls in February.
Cole McKinney with the Bridge Emergency Shelter in Cortez opens the door for a client who wants to come in for the night.
A Montezuma County Sheriff’s Department Mounted Patrol deputy salutes during the national anthem at the Ute Mountain Roundup Rodeo in Cortez.
Vivienne McIntyre, owner of Nifty Nanny, slides Filomena Stancampiano, 5, down a Slip’N Slide at the Smiley Building where her business is located.
Jeff Creamer in his kayak frees an empty raft stuck in Smelter Rapid on the Animas River in the Durango Whitewater Park.
