Desert Rose JK
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This posting is a couple weeks late but I got busy and I've been slow getting the photos down loaded off the cameras. I work construction management and finished up and turned over a job at the end of August and was to start a new one right away but the permits got held up for a couple of weeks. So on a quick decision, the wife was able to take a week off and so, on Friday we made up the trip route. We had been seeing a lot of photos on the net from the Colorado 'All-4-Fun' week back in the start of August and had talked that 'wheeling' on those tall mountain passes would be neat to do...so we packed and got ready on Saturday & Sunday and left on Monday morning for a 6 day 'road trip' to Southwest Colorado to explore the big mountains and beauty of that region.
1880's silver mine site at the edge of main street of Rico. It's neat how well preserved all or most of the 1800's buildings and mines are through out Colorado.
Spent the first night in Cortez and then headed over to Telluride and went up one side road to the old mine site of Alta, still some well preserved old buildings.
I love following the history of these old sites and loved that they do this at a lot of these old mines and ghost towns.
Lunch break at Alta lake. near the mine site and WHAT a sitting for a picnic lunch at over 12,000 foot elevation... this is the life for a pair of desert rats!!!
The inner basin around from Alta, site of the Gold King mine, such beauty, we could spend all day sitting and staring at the landscape!
Headed out of Telluride up and over Imogene Pass to Ouray. This is a short 'tunnel' along the way above Telluride.
This is the view at the above 'tunnel' looking at the Bridal Veil falls, the powerhouse and Black Bear Pass road.(the rolled over jeep had just happened a few days earlier on that area)
The mine site of 'Tomboy' above Telluride starting to go back into the soil as time moves on
The sign telling about the riches of the old mining days.
1880's silver mine site at the edge of main street of Rico. It's neat how well preserved all or most of the 1800's buildings and mines are through out Colorado.
Spent the first night in Cortez and then headed over to Telluride and went up one side road to the old mine site of Alta, still some well preserved old buildings.
I love following the history of these old sites and loved that they do this at a lot of these old mines and ghost towns.
Lunch break at Alta lake. near the mine site and WHAT a sitting for a picnic lunch at over 12,000 foot elevation... this is the life for a pair of desert rats!!!
The inner basin around from Alta, site of the Gold King mine, such beauty, we could spend all day sitting and staring at the landscape!
Headed out of Telluride up and over Imogene Pass to Ouray. This is a short 'tunnel' along the way above Telluride.
This is the view at the above 'tunnel' looking at the Bridal Veil falls, the powerhouse and Black Bear Pass road.(the rolled over jeep had just happened a few days earlier on that area)
The mine site of 'Tomboy' above Telluride starting to go back into the soil as time moves on
The sign telling about the riches of the old mining days.
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