Looking back at our trail by Gladstone from Corkscrew:
Gray Copper Gulch, a side-trail off Corkscrew:
At the top of Corkscrew; over 12,000 ft elevation:
And Tommy can still run without getting winded:
Coming down from Corkscrew near Irontown:
On 550 headed to Ouray:
After a nice lunch in Ouray (yes, of course it was Mexican at Buen Tiempo),
we climbed up to Cascade Falls. Here's Jimmy:
Tommy & Jimmy:
Lots of water coming down:
Tommy does a "selfie" with my Nikon:
Instead of coming home the usual way, we decided to go thru Ridgeway.
Here's the True Grit Café. Much of the John Wayne version of the movie
was filmed in this area:
We drove by Telluride and picked up Ophir Pass.
Jimmy driving the ledge road in the rain:
Here's a shot of the trail from the back seat:
Good shot of the ledge road. Interesting history. It was originally an Indian hunting trail called the Navajo Trail. Next came trappers and finally explorers and prospectors using it in the 1860s. It was converted into a toll road in 1880. One of my favorite stories is about Swen Nilson, a mail carrier who left Silverton in December 1883 with all the Christmas packages for the town of Ophir. He never showed and the people were sure that he had "stolen their Christmas." His skeleton was found two years later with the mail sack still around his neck.
Down below the ledge, there are the remains of a camper
and a truck. No clue if they went over together.
Have to ask yourself why they thought they could drive this.
Looking for elk on the way down:
Love the low hanging clouds:
Wildflowers starting to bloom:
We saw a couple of doe on the highway out of Telluride and
one dead deer on Ophir Pass. Other than that, all we saw were marmots.
This little guy posed while I "talked" to him:
Back in the RV about dark. Feels like it's going to be a cold night!
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