Photo For 07/14/2012

A sign at the summit...

MOSQUITO PASS

ELEVATION 13,185 FEET

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 instead of a hillside.

....Father Dyer traveling with 10-foot Norway snowshoes on night’s hard snow to deliver to U.S. mail to Leadville.