The 2020 club Silverton trip, Aug 23-29. The following trails were run, the gulches (Eureka, Picayune, Placer, California and Corkscrew), Alpine Loop (Engineer's Pass, American Basin and Cinnamon Pass), Black Bear Pass, Browns Gulch and the Red Mountain Ming District and Imogene Pass and Last Dollar Road.
Along the trail
Top of Imogene
Tracy at Imogene Overlook
Red Mountain Mining District
Red Mountain Mining District
The group at the Red Mountain Mining District
Fixer Upper
Don at the Red Mountain District Complex
Yankee Girl one of the most photographed mines in Colorado
Como Lake
Sign at Cinnamon Pass
Even allowed a Toyota to join us!
Ed at the sign to Black Bear Pass
Sign at the top of Black Bear
Black Bear
Black Bear
Want to take your Mercedes on Black Bear? Its at Ingram Falls with a busted oil pan too!
Eureaka Gulch
Eureaka Gulchas covers of the old shafts
Eureaka Gulch
Eureaka Gulch
Eureaka Gulch
Eureaka Gulch
Snow from the alvanche winter 2018-2019 at the start of Picayne trail
Lunch on Hurricane Pass
Looking down to the intersection with California Gulch
one of the old mills in California Gulch
Timbers in the mill numbered so they could disassemble, move, and reassemble
California Pass sign
Lake Como just below California Pass starting down Poughkeepisie trail.
Lake Como
Mining structure
Member rigs going up to Engineers pass
The view for Oh look out just before getting to Engineers Pass
My (Don) Jeep at Oh lookout
Mining hardware along the trail coming down from Engineers Pass on the Lake City side.
Deer on the Lake City side of Cinnamon Pass
Another Mom and her Baby on the Lake City side of Cinnamon Pass
Cinnamon Pass
The Group head to the top of Black Bear pass
Top of Black Bear Pass
Tram towers along Black Bear
Same tower different view
View from the passenger seat as you start over the edge to the Switch Backs on Black Bear.
The old Power House at Braidal Vail Falls
The group coming to the First of the many sharp switch backs comming down Black Bear Trial
Looking up towards Ophir Pass.
Ophir Pass
Opir Pass
Coming down the Silverton side of Opir
Sitll coming down Opir
At the begining of Imogene pass starting through the mine entrance.
Going up Imogene trail
The Group on Imogene Trail
Water Fall along Imogene Trail
Looking over the valley along Imogene Trail going up
More of the view along Imogene Trail
Top of Imogene Pass Imogene is the second highest pass you can drive over in CO.
Thats where we go from here.
An old building along the trail
Tomboy
Tomboy
Tomboy
A look at the switch backs that you come down as you finish Black Bear.
The Arch on Imogene this is on the Telluride side.
So of the things you will see in Ironton mining distrist.
Just along the trail
Looking down on Highway 550 at the sharp turn that starts the climb up Red Mountain Pass on the Silverton side.
One of the many structrues in the Red Mountain Mining District
More of the same structure
The grating over the vertical shaft.
More of the area
More of the structure in the area
Part of the same complex.......
More........
and even more.
Another view of the Yankee Girl mine
more on the mine
Inside the structure.......
more
A small water fall along the road.
Here we go!
Up the trail
Higher
and higher
and higher.
The top
and down the other side.
