July 29, 2013

• July 16, 2013: Fairburn Mountain to Rifle

  The road from Nederland to Central City/Blackhawk leads up and over peaks that have some snow pack all year long.

        

  They are the gateway to what is billed as “the richest square mile on Earth:  Central City/Blackhawk.  These towns are gambling meccas, so being an unventuresome sort, in that regard, I spent only about twenty minutes looking over the area’s historical treasures.  Mountain City is a collection of preserved late 19th Century mining town structures.

  

                                                          

  Here is a view of Black Hawk’s main north-south street.

   

  

   

  Although this area is billed as a tourist site, I did not get good vibes from the few locals I encountered, and so moved on to Glenwood Springs.  My friend works for a school system in the Glenwood area.  He introduced me to Yampah Vapor Caves, which gave me twenty minutes of deep breathing and cleansing.  We then went over to  his home in Rifle, some twenty miles west north west of Glenwood Springs.

  

   

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