We spent the entire day in the mountains today. We started on the west side of Boulder, just at the base of the mountains, then headed up to Blackhawk (where we saw the worst eyesore, a casino that has a skyscraper tower which starts at road level and sticks up almost to the peaks of the mountains surrounding the valley) and Central City (where the old mining town feel has remained after the casinos came in). From there, we drove above Central City along some of the improved dirt roads from which we could see Mr S-P's mountain, even if we didn't go there, and a neat old cemetery, before heading along the Peak-to-Peak to see what we could see. It was cloudy and snowy for much of the day, so we didn't have many sweeping vistas, but we still had a good time on the way north to Estes Park. We did a once-around the Stanley Hotel, and gave my little red-headed dog a chance to bark his head off at a few skinny elk yearlings who were minding their own business, eating grass next to the road. Finally, we worked our way down the mountain, showing our guest all of the lasting damage from the biblical flood of 2013. I didn't take as many pictures of the lingering debris and alluvium fields. A small cell phone camera lens just doesn't capture the impact of the scars on the valleys.
I did take dozens of pictures along the way, and now, after another dinner that couldn't be beat, not a single one of us has anything left in the tank. So I'm going to let my pictures do the talking, and I'm going to go get into jammies and go to bed early. I might repeat a couple of views, from where I reframed some shots, but I'm not going to stress over which is better. I'll just give you the bulk of them. Enjoy!
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