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Justin and I took a minute to pose The Mighty Red Chili on The Albino Rhino before the monthly Rising Sun 4×4 Club meeting at Stevinson Toyota West.
After the meeting, Travis’s Honey Badger got involved in our light show. There’s never a dull moment for us!
The Honeybadger and the Albino Rhino went on a little adventure over McLellan Mountain to check out the old mine down the shelf road that is inaccessible ten or eleven months out of the year. Usually that north-facing shelf road has a big chute of snow blocking it.
Looking back up the mountain. The switchbacks coming down are pretty tight in a few places and in one place there is a very tippy section.
Peering into the old mine tunnel. This one was gated off in such a way that bats can still access the tunnels and shafts underground but that humans can’t.
Down the drainage further is I-70. It’s a bit surprising that the road was never connected down to other access roads below. Maybe this road was made to connect over to the mill at the Santiago Mine in Argentine basin. Even if that was the case, they would have only been able to haul ore out a couple months a year.
Heather and I went up to see some water today. Our first stop was Sherwin Lake off of Fall River Road.
Looking down onto Chinn’s Lake below.
Sherwin Lake really is a pretty little place.
Down at Chinn’s Lake near the old miner’s cabin that gets partially submerged by the lake every day.
Looking north along the dam at Chinn’s Lake.
Not much of this cabin is left.
Looking out toward the general direction of Denver from Fall River Reservoir dam.
Fall River Reservoir is also very pretty.
We got up to Loch Lomond right as the clouds opened up and it started dumping buckets. We tried to wait it out but there were too many black clouds and there was too much rain.
On the way back down to St. Mary’s and Alice, it felt just like home in the Pacific Northwest!
