Wednesday, August 4, 2020 MINING MUSUEM

It has rained every day!  Monday, was a monsoon.  Jane & Charles went into South Fork to have Jane's molar repaired.  She lucked out and and was referred to a dentist she liked.  Tuesday, we drove to Alamosa to see a doctor about Jim's relentless cough.  He also lucked out and liked the doctor he saw.  The doctor thinks his cough is due to allergies and gave him a new med to try.  It was pretty much an all day trip.  On the way home (at dusk) a gray fox ran across the highway in front of us.

Wednesday, it was still raining, so we visited the mining musuem in town.  It is built into the side of a mountain in a cave, so was pretty cold in there.  We learned some things about mining in the old days and newer techniques.

Miners climbed down the laddar; bucket carried the ore up.

The "honey wagon" went into the cave next to the lunch wagon!!  Disgusting

It was cleaned out on Fridays.

Jim has talked about how much fun it would be to build a bicycle

to ride the abandoned train tracks around here.

Ta-duh  -- here it is from the "olden ages" -- only -- it had NO brakes!

They stopped by pedalling backwards.

The assayers office

The town is right on the edge of where it all happened. 

Just past that first outcropping, there is evidence of the old mines.

We stay in the same park, but have to move to a different site in the morning,

so the morning will involve some "putting away" and pulling in the slides, etc. 

It will mean a later start to the day.