September 25, 2007

FROSTY MORNING!

Fall has arrived!

September 16, 2007

Engineer Pass Trip!
The view from the top!

And believe me, we are just happy to be able to put these pictures on our blog. It means we got home safely!
You'll actually want to view the pictures of this trip from the start, up the pass, to here!
(Go down the pictures in the blog about 10 pictures.)

Getting to the top was breathtakingly beautiful!


We didn't take any more pictures after this because the final 10 miles were jeep wrenching, white knuckle, pry the fingers off the steering wheel at the end, bone jarring, exhilaration! And not necessarily a good exhilaration.
By the time we realized what the road conditions were going to be like, it was too late. There was no turning around, literally!
Besides, we were probably better off going mainly downhill than uphill.
We should have taken some pictures of the road, but they wouldn't have done the situation justice.
We were very glad to make it to the highway without any major damage. It's safe to say Sue and Erica will probably never want to take another even remotely less traveled road through back country again! (I'll even have to give it a lot of thought.)

September 16, 2007

Engineer Pass Trip (Cont'd)
More breathtaking views!

September 16, 2007

Engineer Pass Trip (Cont'd)

Only the two buildings in the background remain! There are a couple of homesteads nearby but what used to be the finest 'mansion' in Southern Colorado used to be here, but had long ago fallen into ruin and was finally razed back in the 60's.
But by looking at these photoes from this site, it's easy to see what the attraction was to the area. But this was a half hour up the valley from Lake City by jeep on an 'OK' dirt road. How they found this area to begin with is amazing.

Sept. 16, 2007

Engineer Pass Trip (Cont'd)


Beautiful Fall Colors!