Photo for 02/28/2007

It had pretty much clouded up by the time we reached the summit at an elevation of 13,185 feet. From here we will head down the east side of the pass en route to Fairplay, Colorado. Yes folks this was once a stagecoach road!!!! The sign says -

IMAGINE

· …..Six horse teams pulling loaded wagons, passing each other during a SUMMER snow, the year 1878.

· …..80 timid passengers, certain they would find their gold in a halo rather than a hillside.

· …..“Father” Dyer [Methodist preacher and South Park Missionary] traveling with 10-foot Norway snow shoes on night’s hard snow to deliver the U.S. mail and the [Gospel] to Leadville…