Photo for 03/25/2009

Headed over Imogene Pass from Telluride to Ouray…Here we are stopped at “Cell Phone Point” (actually we are at the Smuggler Union Mine).

Excerpt from an article I wrote referring to this trip – “When Vicki and I first married we did not have a telephone as we could not afford one. However, as you know at lot has happened in telephone technology since 1966. This really became apparent on a recent trip we made to southwest Colorado. We were headed up a ‘5’ rated (extremely hazardous) four wheel drive road over Imogene Pass above Telluride with three other vehicles when we stopped for a break at the Smuggler Union Mine.…the next thing I knew there were at least three people talking on cell phones to various people all over the country (the only reason they weren’t talking in the vehicles is you have to use both hands to hang on).