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blondiebear · 04-06-2008, 01:43 AM

To get to the mining towns we wanted to explore today we drove up a route on the map that was marked scenic! It was beautiful! Its name is Phantom Canyon. The road had so mild a slope that I wondered out loud to Philip if it had been the route of an old railroad. He didn't think so. Then we got to an educational poster...I didn't have to say anything. The road wound up the canyon with evergreens on the slopes and willow and oaks along the creek. When we got hight we got to the level of the aspen trees. The trunks are white and the pale green heart shaped leaves just flutter in the light and whisper to themselves and they are beautiful!

We went to an outdoor mine exhibit. It had some of the old mining equipment, a head frame which in the old days was used to transport men, equipment and rock from the bottom of the mine to the surface. They also had an old ore cart. Then from the top of the mountain, about 10700 feet high, we could also see a modern mining operation where basically the whole mountain is taken apart to get the gold out of it. Philip also got a photo of the truck with 10 foot tires that was hauling the rock.

The route we took around the little mining communities and from the city where we are staying and back again is called the Gold Belt Tour. It is such a beautiful area. I don't think I'd care to live there though. The town of Cripple Creek is about 9400 feet high and the outdoor mine exhibit was even higher. Philip helped me to the car when I felt faint at mine exhibit.

Philip and I had an argument this afternoon about car repair. We ended up screaming at each other a couple of times. I think we needed it though. We've both been wound up a bit.

Oh yea, a warning, I asked Philip to take a photo of me so y'all could see it. Philip should have the photos updated by, lessee, it is 7pm here, they should be up by 10pm so 10+ 7 = 5am UK time. I can also add in base 60, great skill for travel time and for latitude longitude. I refuse to be ashamed of adding on my fingers! I am fat, oh well. I'll let Philip decide which photo to put up. Sorry, I don't have one of him. He is totally in charge of the cameras this trip.

As I write this, Philip is getting dinner and I'm looking from the window of our upstairs motel room up into the rocky mountains via Royal Gorge through which the Arkansas River flows. The snow pack in the Rocky mountains has melted so fast that the river is in flood, expected to peak Wednesday night! I don't think it will cause very much damage. Hope y'all don't mind the bit about the river. I'm totally interested in them. The first part of the title of my MA thesis was "Land Use, Runoff, and Flooding..."

04-06-2008, 01:43 AM	#34
blondiebear Bringing back the lost art of Sewing Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: California Confusion I am currently:	To get to the mining towns we wanted to explore today we drove up a route on the map that was marked scenic! It was beautiful! Its name is Phantom Canyon. The road had so mild a slope that I wondered out loud to Philip if it had been the route of an old railroad. He didn't think so. Then we got to an educational poster...I didn't have to say anything. The road wound up the canyon with evergreens on the slopes and willow and oaks along the creek. When we got hight we got to the level of the aspen trees. The trunks are white and the pale green heart shaped leaves just flutter in the light and whisper to themselves and they are beautiful! We went to an outdoor mine exhibit. It had some of the old mining equipment, a head frame which in the old days was used to transport men, equipment and rock from the bottom of the mine to the surface. They also had an old ore cart. Then from the top of the mountain, about 10700 feet high, we could also see a modern mining operation where basically the whole mountain is taken apart to get the gold out of it. Philip also got a photo of the truck with 10 foot tires that was hauling the rock. The route we took around the little mining communities and from the city where we are staying and back again is called the Gold Belt Tour. It is such a beautiful area. I don't think I'd care to live there though. The town of Cripple Creek is about 9400 feet high and the outdoor mine exhibit was even higher. Philip helped me to the car when I felt faint at mine exhibit. Philip and I had an argument this afternoon about car repair. We ended up screaming at each other a couple of times. I think we needed it though. We've both been wound up a bit. Oh yea, a warning, I asked Philip to take a photo of me so y'all could see it. Philip should have the photos updated by, lessee, it is 7pm here, they should be up by 10pm so 10+ 7 = 5am UK time. I can also add in base 60, great skill for travel time and for latitude longitude. I refuse to be ashamed of adding on my fingers! I am fat, oh well. I'll let Philip decide which photo to put up. Sorry, I don't have one of him. He is totally in charge of the cameras this trip. As I write this, Philip is getting dinner and I'm looking from the window of our upstairs motel room up into the rocky mountains via Royal Gorge through which the Arkansas River flows. The snow pack in the Rocky mountains has melted so fast that the river is in flood, expected to peak Wednesday night! I don't think it will cause very much damage. Hope y'all don't mind the bit about the river. I'm totally interested in them. The first part of the title of my MA thesis was "Land Use, Runoff, and Flooding..."
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