Another productive summer weekend. Finding that Summer is definitely my jam:). Headed up to the Property Friday morning. After cleaning the 4runner I headed over to Grass Creek for a short hike, only to watch the clouds roll in, not the best place to be during a storm as it’s bit exposed. So spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and taking pics of the Wild Flowers that were out in force. That evening my Step Brother and Nephew showed up. My nephew requested to talk trucks with me a while back, but I decided it was better to go for a drive in a truck rather than talk about them. So we went for a “Bumpy Truck Ride” to the wilderness boundary. He was having a blast.
Woke up early the next morning and headed over to Georgetown to meet up with my pal Travis. We headed up our clubs adopt-a-trail Argentine Pass, making it to the old town site of Waldorf a little after 10 am. The pass itself is still snowed in near the top with some good sized drifts, probably be August before it opens up. The goal for this outing was to hike over to an old miners cabin across from Waldorf. Other than being a bit out of shape, was fun to finally check out after wondering about it for some 17 years. It was a beautiful day up on Argentine, and plan to be up there a lot this year.
A hill side along the road to the trail head for Grass Creek, it was covered in flowers.
In the main meadow of the property, looking South to Rosedale Peak and the Mt. Evans Wilderness.
The Columbines are out at the property, has to be the most I’ve seen up there.
My Nephew ( almost 3) was having a fun time during our “Bumpy Truck Ride” drive:).
At the old town site of Waldorf, once claimed to have the highest Post Office in the US at 11,666ft. Behind the rigs is the old miners cabin that I’ve been curious about for so long and we finally hiked out to on this outing.
Near the old cabin, you have some great views of Waldorf and the “East Argentine Mining District”. In the bowl in the upper right can be found the old Santiago Mill and Mine site.
The old miners cabin.
Travis had never been to the Vidler Tunnel, below Argentine Pass. So we stopped to check it out. It was originally intended to be a access tunnel for the steam trains to get to the mineral deposits on the West side of the pass. Was completed in 1968 and is 1.4 miles long. Mt. Wilcox is behind us.
