Man I miss Leadville. I live in NY now but used to live in Denver. We would try to make it up to Leadville whenever possible. Loved the Leadville Boom Days and the mining college museum. The Leadville 100 is on my bucket list.
Was going to make a joke about the Glory Hole Tavern, but it turns out that place helped keep the town on the map. It even had a bar salvaged from a ghost town.
Top photo has no trees on the Ridgeline, so it’s unlikely to be a seasonal difference.
My guess is either people cut down the trees in the top photo and they grew back or it’s in a warm typically grasslands environment that would normally have a forest fire cycle keeping trees from germinating, but years of forest fire suppression allowed trees to encroach.
“The photo below of the Islington tunnel keeper, could be of Mary Rockingham, who took over the job in 1902 from her husband. She lived in the two roomed cottage against the wall of the bridge, marshalling the barges and sometimes taking the horses over the hill.”
Where else would it be? I suppose it might’ve been shipped to the middle of the desert in Arizona, as such things are, but it seems unlikely in this case :)
Been here irl and it’s really really pretty, there’s a bunch of high quality (and high price) shops nearby and the whole place is very open with no cars and this really made my trip!
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