We had a family worship in this awe-inspiring setting. It’s a great place to worship God!
Brad and the girls went fishing. We were happy to learn that the first weekend
in June every year is free fishing! No
license, no stamp required! That was a
nice treat. I ran up to find the camp
host to see if we could add one more night.
It’s just so pretty here! And we
still have things to do in town. The
camp host, Helyn Wright, talked to me for about 40 min. She is so nice and has lots of stories and
advice. She and her husband are full
time RV-ers. (used to live in Seattle
and are going back this fall to work some to pay for their new GIANT
motorhome.)
Then we popped over to “town” to catch the 1:00 train. It is the Leadville, Southern and Colorado RR
that used to run between Leadville and Denver (151 miles!). Now it just runs about 9 mi toward Denver and
then reverses to head back to Leadville. It was the girls’ first time on a
train. The views were stunning and the
ride was quite peaceful. Audra was the
only one who didn’t doze on the way back down.
After the train ride, we drove about 5 mi outside of town to
see the first house my mom lived in here.
It is right next door to the old ranger station, which is right next to
Crystal Lake. All of this is set pretty
much dead center of Mt. Elbert on the left and Mt. Massive on the right. No wonder she misses CO!
Helyn brought us some extra kindling and lots of partially
burned wood that she cleans out of peoples’ fire-rings when they leave. She either uses it or tosses it, but thought
we might like to have it. Bonus fire
tonight!! Thanks Helyn!
Leadville Train
I love the pictures - it looks like the weather is nice? Are you going to tell us the story about the ice palace (or should we just come out to Leadville)?
ReplyDeleteWe sent the kids around to check vacated campsites for abandoned firewood. Mondays are the best - weekend campers often don't want to carry firewood home.
Keep posting - we're reading!
Thanks for reading Katie! I knew our moms would. It's nice that our friends are! :)
ReplyDeleteBriefly ... Leadville was a mining town that sort of blew up (in population) in the late 1800's. Eventually, the mining resources started to run out and the town was losing popularity. So they decided to build an Ice Palace for tourism and as a unique thing to get attention. They started working in Nov I think, building a wooden frame, then carved ice blocks out of snow/ice banks and began to build. It was so intricate and amazing. It had a dining hall, ice skating rink, carrousel and I can't remember what else. Unfortunately, they had an early thaw that spring and had to close in in early March . Most winters it could have stayed frozen till May. That's pretty much it. You learn lots of stuff when you travel! ;)