Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Cripple Creek mining



(Photos by Dave Bleam)

One thing about Colorado weather, if you don't like it, just wait 10 minutes. We woke up to bright blue skies this morning, after an end-of-the-world thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. My dad and I took a tour of the open pit mining operation- this monstrous hole is just a mile or so (as the bird flies) from their house in Cripple Creek. It was a surreal experience seeing entire mountains ground up into 1/2 pieces. I'll write more about it when I get home and load my pictures. Tomorrow is a travel day back to Seattle, wish me luck.

2 comments:

  1. I just read that the root beer float was invented in CC.

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  2. One of the "tamer" pleasures invented in the old gold camp :-)

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