Buen Dia!

[RGINN]

Got a few days break between snowstorms so headed down around Salida and out east along the Arkansas River. Almost up to 60 degrees down there today. It put me in such a good mood I actually paid the $8 AHRA day use fee for the areas and stopped at a few for pics.

 

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[cyzak]

Very cool photos.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Beautiful area!

 

[old digger]

Nice pictures! It's finally warming up here too.

 

[tamrock]

Yeah down that way on a day like that can sure be refreshing. Much quieter to. 8 bucks huh. Kind of the way of California now. That's fine with me, as it goes to good use hopefully.

 

[A2coins]

Wow you live an awesome.life those pics are just amazing I've been stuck in Mi too long

 

[Flipperfla]

Great photos, Beautiful area, our last trip out we camped Cascade camp on Chalk Creek for 3 days then Hecla Junction in Browns Canyon, we had the whole place to ourselves for a week! Then to Salida for 3 days to restock then on to Creede and Lake City. Just fantastic! Slumgullion Pass was a white knuckle drive. Damn! Cant wait to our next trip next fall. Love Colorado! By the way, 89 down here in the flatlands today.

 

[RGINN]

Last two pics are at Hecla Junction, Flipperfla. I've camped there a lot.

 

[Flipperfla]

Looks like we were in almost the same spot for our Pix!

 

[Inspector Comet]

Got a few days break between snowstorms so headed down around Salida and out east along the Arkansas River. Almost up to 60 degrees down there today. It put me in such a good mood I actually paid the $8 AHRA day use fee for the areas and stopped at a few for pics.

#3 from left to right is an especially impressive shot. Very nice photos, wish I could have joined you! Thanks for sharing

 

[RGINN]

#1 is near Granite early in the morning, 0 degrees. #2 is at Rincon, #3 is at Lone Pine, and the last two at Hecla Junction. Camped all those places except Lone Pine.

 

[glass half fool]

If I spent the day in territory like that I would be in a good mood also You got some great shots

 

[tamrock]

I've often wondered how that place got the name Hecla Junction. No doubt it was once an old railroad stop. Hecla is the name of a silver mining company based in Idaho that's been in operation since 1891and I've always had a notion that place was somehow originally named in some connection to the Hecla mining Company. Just one of the things I think about, because sometimes finding out how a place got the name can be about how that place began and what it was they did there when it was originally established.

 

[RGINN]

That was the home of the Calumet and Hecla mine complex. Largest source of iron ore in Colorado. I also understand there was fluoride in the area. There's still some foundations in the area if you know where to look.

 

[tamrock]

It's funny that out of the years I live in BV and Salida I just never spent much time looking around that area of Hecla junction.

 

[RGINN]

Here's some of the foundation ruins west of the river at Hecla Junction, tamrock. Somebody had an active claim there about 3 years ago. I guess that was a booming place over a 100yrs. ago.

 

[tamrock]

Looks like an old mill site. There's an early iron mining coal region not far from me called Marshal and I would find a few old relics around there when I first moved here. Colorado Fuel and Iron was once a major employer there in Pueblo, but pretty much shut down in the late 70s. A few CF&I workers headed to work at Climax, but were shortly laid off after we shut down. I voted for Ronald Reagan in hopes he could get things turned around from how peanut boy screwed every thing up.