At the end of Gold Camp Road is the old mining town of
Victor, CO. They have a handmade broom shop there that back in 2005 I purchased a medium hand broom from and they are still there hand-making brooms. The town itself does not seem to be doing very well. More buildings boarded up than the last time we were there.
They have plenty of these old mining carts around town, some with flowers, some with rocks, this one with a Luke.
Luke is learning about the Gold Rush in school right now, so he really found all of the old mines and equipment really interesting.
This tire is from a 3100 ton truck and it cost $25,000. wow. It is really big. If you are interested in a little bit of the business of mining gold currently, check out
this site.
CC&V is the mining company in the
Cripple Creek and Victor area now.
The kids would have climbed around on this tire for a long time had we let them and we would have have 150 pictures of it. Each time they were at the top they wanted a pic snapped! :)
There was an abundance of wild rasberries along Gold Camp Road as well as some of the other back country roads we took. Sweet, tart and tasty. I took a picture just in case JB had to rush me to the hospital.
We found the "Mutha Ship" - oh wait - that's the Mutha Earthship!
We took Gold Camp Road form CO Springs to Victor. We ran into what we might call hail, but it was more like snow balls, but not really sleet. Good road, not difficult at all. Pretty sites.
Sunday after church was a great time for us to visit Frontier City.
Raven was quite serious at the start of all of the roll-a-coaster rides, but she decided that she likes the lasso ride because it doesn't have a loop.
The Ferris wheel is always a hit for our family!
Luke was marching ahead to the rapids when we stopped for this photo.
Raven rode up with Daddy.
Luke rode up with me.
We all enjoyed a time at the top.
Raven, Luke & Delia had a snack and watched the squirrels (more critters that are not afraid of humans!!)
