This morning we said goodbye to Barb and Bill, who were only with us for two days of volleyball viewing. They zipped back to town in Bill’s convertible Boxster. Ruth really wanted to somehow fit in the back for the ride.
Dave and Ellen came up from Glenwood Springs and we set off for a jeeping adventure to Grizzly Reservoir and the ghost town of Ruby on Lincoln Creek Road.
We had a beer and peanuts at the reservoir and then set out for Ruby. Amazingly, people walked over the Continental Divide from Twin Lakes with their mining supplies every summer to mine at Ruby.
The family still possesses 3 claims, which they still mine. We saw an old wagon train trail that headed over the divide.
It is really difficult to imagine living and working like that. Hardy souls!
Dave and Ellen had met some mushroom gatherers earlier in the month and wanted to find a certain type of mushroom, the King Bolete, that grows above 10,000 feet. They described them as golden hamburger buns. Well, we found tons of them. We all had fun gathering these big mushroom caps. The jeep smelled like stroganoff all the way home. Ellen, better cook them up!
We finished the day with a great rib dinner at The Hickory House in Aspen. Too much food…loved the ribs!
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