Saturday, September 17, 2011

Colorado August 2011

Our first trail of the trip!  Engineer Pass!










Mine Ruins

Our first stop...  getting out to stretch the legs


Ryan and Cash
I love this picture!!!





Snow!







Cheese!!!!

Mine Ruins








Made it to the top!  And it was COLD!!!!
Engineer Pass
Elevation 12,800 ft


Papa D (Don Pitts), Ryan and Cash

Snow!




Its for sale!!!!






Another stop to stretch the legs and look at scenery!


Papa D and Cash Man



Momma Moose!!!!!

Momma moose  (there was a baby with her)



And then we saw daddy moose! 







And now we are headed down the mountain via Cinnamon Pass

Mining Ruins

This was the brothel!





Inside the brothel







He loves jeeping just like his daddy!  This yellow jeep took the Colorado trip with us last year as well!


Ryan just loving life!


Ryan playing frisbee 

with Tyler


Amanda and Creed Cox




Tyler's Jeep







Ryan and Tyler's rigs



Sheep!!!!  I find it kinda funny I am taking pictures of sheep!






Played with the color.  The pictures just don't do it justice!!!  It really is greener and more vibrant than
my pictures were turning out.

This is Black Bear Pass








Looks like glass!  Beautiful!




Tyler

Tyler and Ryan


Tyler and Creed Cox with Ryan and Cash Crutcher


Black Bear Pass
Elevation 12,840 ft
Cash didn't want to take a picture  


I had to get one with Cash too!









And that would be Telluride




Ryan about to jump out and hang on a wire hanging down!


There he goes!




Tyler's turn!



Creed







Waterfall!!!!






















Coming up on Bridals Veil Waterfall

Looking from the bottom

Ryan and Tyler

Creed Man

Tyler and Ryan going to get a closer look









Cash and Daddy




Cash did NOT want to take a picture!



Cash and Me with Amanda and Creed





Boys and their toys  :]













See the crazy climbers??



Farmer's Market in Telluride


Telluride Film Festival










Black Bear Pass
Yes that is just what we came down. 

A memorial we found on Imogene Pass next to a waterfall.



Ryan looking for gold!  No such luck  :(



Ryan and Holly














Back at the Riverside Inn
Ryan and Paulette

Cash showing Papa D how to play his games on daddy's phone  
These Mine Pictures are actually backwards.  This was at the end of our mine tour


Thought that was so precious!

Old mining cars

The porta-potty!!!!  Basically a mining car with a hole on top that you sit on!!

Demonstrating some mining machinery



Thats DARK!






31 hole pattern   still used today
31 holes drilled 6 ft in to the rock and 6 dynamite in each whole



Sweet Cash

Joe explaining some different mining tools 


Looking up the elevator shaft.  Has to go 600ft to get to the next level

The elevator that could carry 6 men and their drills

Joe demonstrating drills that they used.  Wow it was loud and there was only one drill being used!  Normally there were 30 being used at one time! 



Joe, our Mine Tour Guide
He was a minor himself until the 80's when he retired.  

Going in the mine. It took us 1/3 of a mile in the mountain and in that 1/3 of a mile we gained 8ft in elevation.



Ready!!!




Is that not the cutest little miner you have ever seen!!!!


Panning for gold!




Who does this picture look like to you?  lol  I guess Ryan was a miner in his former life!



The Old Hundred Mine

http://www.minetour.com/history.php

What we rode into the mine in





















Cash's hands in the snow!





















On the Poughkeepsie Trail








Watching Daddy




























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