Fun Valley, CO, Monday August 29, 2011

I spent some time last night and this morning catching up on bill paying, mainly taxes, insurance and utilities.
Some time before noon we met up with Alan and hoping for enough sunshine for better picture in the area of Creed.

Before noon we went and watched the Line dancing class that Alan attends.

Downtown Creed, CO

It was raining pretty hard when we got to Creed.  We decided to have lunch.  We shared an excellent pizza.  It was still raining off and on when we headed up the canyon.

Inside the Creed FD

Entrance to Creed FD

There are some unique things to see in and near Creed.  There are a lot of old mines.  Even the Creed Fire Department is house in an old mine,  There is a large main room with side rooms where the different equipment is housed.

The door goes into a mine shaft

My Geomate Jr. showed a cache about 1.6 miles away in a direction that was generally up a canyon.  The road was steep and wet but a good solid gravel road.  As we drove up the canyon the cache was to our left.  We circled up to an area where there used to be a town called Bachelor City.  Now the cache was about 600' away.  We tried a small road that seemed to go in the right direction.  The road was rough and I hit several rocks going up.  The road got narrower with barely room between the trees for the Jeep.  Finally we came to a wider spot, still 400' from the cache, and I decided to turn around.  Alan moved a small downed tree and several branches.  Because the turn was tight I used four wheel drive due to the tight maneuvers.  On the way back to the main road I think I hit all the same rocks again.

Success, can you see where the cache is?

Back on the main road we parked at the markers giving information on the old town.  Alan and I walked the 600 and some feet to the cache.  The area of the cache is at an elevation of 10500 feet, so walking took my breath away.          

Higher view of Creed

On the way back down to Creed we stopped and took several pictures.
Back at the RV Park we passed on supper, even though it was all the sirloin steak you can eat.  We were still full from the lunch pizza.
Gerri made Glenna a sandwich and we went to watch the Wild Rose Band and country dancing.
We returned to the coach about 9:30 and called it a night after some computer and TV time.