Lake City is connected to a bunch of other old mining towns through a network of old mining roads that are generally passable only for 4x4 vehicles. One of our favorite activities is to take one of these old mining roads, Cinnamon Pass, to Silverton, Colorado before coming back to Lake City via Engineer Pass.
My dad and Gary check out to gorge (and old suspension bridge) below the shelf road on Cinnamon Pass |
Old suspension bridge spans a deep gorge on Cinnamon Pass |
View from the shelf road on Cinnamon Pass |
Remnants of an old mine on Cinnamon Pass |
American Basin as seen from Cinnamon Pass |
Check out the old cabin just above the trees in the upper left |
Looking down over Animas Forks, an old mining town above Silverton, from Cinnamon Pass |
Looking down the valley from Animas Forks |
Not all of the old buildings are completely abandoned |
Not a bad spot for a cabin |
Some of the better funded mines set up aerial tramways to get from one mountain to the other (you can see the lines over the tops of the trees if you look closely) |
A close-up view of one of the cars on the tramway. |
Silverton, Colorado |
Downtown Silverton |
Looking back up the valley at Animas Forks on our way to Engineer Pass |
Engineer Pass |
View from Engineer Pass |
View from Engineer Pass |
Shelf road near the top of Engineer Pass |
Top of Engineer Pass (and Engineer Mountain) as seen from Oh! Point |
My parents on Oh! Point |
The whole crew on Oh! Point |
Mt. Sneffels (just right of center) from Oh! Point |
Darley Mountain as seen from Oh! Point |
Dropping down from Engineer Pass |
Wetterhorn (left) and Uncompahgre (right) from Engineer Pass |
Mt. Sneffels (second peak from the left) from Engineer Pass |
Old cabin along Engineer Pass |
Whitmore Falls |
Dinner was an upgrade from ramen |
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