Mayflower Gulch

Happy Monday to you! I hope that you are enjoying cooler temps of Autumn, with some changes happening in your neck of the woods. Last week hubby and I took a three day trip to Breckenridge; we were there in the summer with our friends, but wanted more time to explore and enjoy this town. The weather was perfect and we had such a great time. On Thursday, we went on a little adventure up the road a bit from Breckenridge. I had checked my John Fielder's Best of Colorado book and found out about Mayflower Gulch. It took some time to finally see where the road was, but oh my what a experience. Unfortunately, we had hubby's Passat and had to park it off the dirt path half way in. We hiked the rest of the way and let me tell you I was winded. We think the elevation is about 10,000'. We can imagine hubby's great grandfather mining here; he lived in Leadville which is just up the road.

We think this was a barn or outbuilding for equipment.  I didn't want to trek up the mountain to the mines, as we had an appointment that afternoon. 

You all know how much I love dogs~firstly Bichons, Labs and Bernese Mountain Dogs are up there too. If we were younger and had land, I'd probably own one of these. Thankfully, two gals were hiking with their dogs-one of the gals had two pups-one was 1.5 yrs and the other 6 mos, but they were almost full grown.  Forgive the shadow; these dogs were so friendly and the owner was surprised I wasn't intimidated by them. 

I have more photos that I'll share on Wednesday; one is inspired by John Fielder's photo.  We loved our time there and if it wasn't so expensive, we'd probably go back. However, Steamboat Springs is just as quaint and not nearly so expensive~so we'll probably head there before winter is here.
The colors have passed their peak, but we still saw some beauties that I will share. 
I hope you have a fantastic start to your week.
Joy to you!
Noreen