Looking over my list of families and jeeps, I know we are set for record attendance. We have people from
Washington, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, and Illinois. Sadly, a few had to depart this morning, but in their place came just as many more! The grand total, so far, is 19 jeeps and 35 people!
After a late start (had to get the Blue Mule's throttle cable fixed), the Fall Color Tour for today was up in the Clear Creek area. Two town sites remain from the booming silver and gold days:
Vicksburg and
Winfield.
Vicksburg is privately owned, but the home owners have a mining museum, and allow people to stroll up and down their beautiful, aspen and cottonwood lined street.
Winfield is further up the valley, and just a few old buildings remain, including the tiny 1 room school house.
The group is using SPOT today to track their trip. This personal locator device records a spot every 10 minutes using GPS. Here is a clip of the satellite imagery based recording for their stop at
Vicksburg.
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| SPOT satellite imagery with todays "footprints" at Vicksburg |
Todays photos are from m38mike and m38mum of the CJ2A forum. Several other members of the forum have posted photos at the
Fall Color Tour's CJ2A forum.
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| Lined up and Ready to Roll at Clear Creek Reservoir |
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| Mainstreet Vicksburg |
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| Look at that gold! |
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| Jeeps grazing at the Thirsty Dirt Ranch |
- Ellen (m38mum)
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