On Sunday we spent some time nosing around Idaho Springs (where we spent 2 nights at a nice bed and breakfast.) At the Idaho Springs Visitors Center there was an interesting museum dedicated to the Colorado Gold Rush that began here in 1859.
A muller to hand crush ore...weighs 20 to 25 pounds.
Dad liked this old photograph.
The Big Horn Sheep...Colorado's State Animal. We saw 3 or 4 of these on our drive down from Mt. Evans, but didn't get a photo.
Old train.
Inside the passenger car.
Charlie Tayler (who attributed his good health to the fact that he never kissed women or took baths) built a water wheel to power a stamp mill (part of the gold mining operation.) It was moved to this location on Clear Water Creek in 1944 and restored in 1988.
Tree with fuzzy things.
We were told there was a monument to George Jackson who first discovered gold in 1859 at Idaho Springs (the first large gold deposit in the Rocky Mountains) which started the Colorado Gold Rush. We had to laugh when we found this exotic granite rock with a small plaque...guess we were expecting a statue or something...
Next we were off to the Rocky Mountain National Park. We drove through this amazing valley and then took a photo from the Trail Ridge Road.
A glacier-fed lake.
A herd of elk by the road.
Dad at Bear Lake...a smaller verision with more trees.
Grasses growing in one end of the lake.
Mom stopping at a scenic spot on our hike around Bear Lake.
On the aspen-lined Glacier Gorge Trail to the falls.
Rock wall.
Glacie Creek.
Pyracantha.
Another shot of Glacie Creek in Glacier Gorge.
Alberta Falls.
On Sunday we spent some time nosing around Idaho Springs (where we spent 2 nights at a nice bed and breakfast.) At the Idaho Springs Visitors Center there was an interesting museum dedicated to the Colorado Gold Rush that began here in 1859.
A muller to hand crush ore...weighs 20 to 25 pounds.
Dad liked this old photograph.
The Big Horn Sheep...Colorado's State Animal. We saw 3 or 4 of these on our drive down from Mt. Evans, but didn't get a photo.
Old train.
Inside the passenger car.
Charlie Tayler (who attributed his good health to the fact that he never kissed women or took baths) built a water wheel to power a stamp mill (part of the gold mining operation.) It was moved to this location on Clear Water Creek in 1944 and restored in 1988.
Tree with fuzzy things.
We were told there was a monument to George Jackson who first discovered gold in 1859 at Idaho Springs (the first large gold deposit in the Rocky Mountains) which started the Colorado Gold Rush. We had to laugh when we found this exotic granite rock with a small plaque...guess we were expecting a statue or something...
Next we were off to the Rocky Mountain National Park. We drove through this amazing valley and then took a photo from the Trail Ridge Road.
A glacier-fed lake.
A herd of elk by the road.
Dad at Bear Lake...a smaller verision with more trees.
Grasses growing in one end of the lake.
Mom stopping at a scenic spot on our hike around Bear Lake.
On the aspen-lined Glacier Gorge Trail to the falls.
Rock wall.
Glacie Creek.
Pyracantha.
Another shot of Glacie Creek in Glacier Gorge.
Alberta Falls.
1 comment:
Dad's right that's a great photo. What a cute burro! Wow Rocky Mountain National Park is a really pretty place huh? Those elk are really beautiful. I also love that picture of the grass in the lake and the one of mom at the lake.
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