Sat Aug 8th, Arrastra, Cunningham Gulches

Last year on my birthday, we saw a big brown bear at Cunningham Gulch.  Was hoping history would repeat itself, but all we saw today were marmots and a fox.

The fox was walking down the road straight toward us & I thought it was a dog.

Once I realized it was a fox, it had ran to the tree; only time for one shot before it went down the side:

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The old Mayflower Mill (now an excellent museum) from several different spots

Looking down at the mill from up by the Mayflower Mine:

The mill on the left, old tram workings still standing on right.

These tram structures amaze me.  The trams hauled tons of rock down & are still standing today:

To the right of this picture, the reddish dot is one of the old ore buckets.

There are many of them still on the wires that went down to the mill.

At the end of the day, the miners would hang onto the wires and ride down beside the full buckets.

Still a little snow left for my summer birthday.

By the time it all melts, it will be time to start snowing again.

 The old miners' boarding house; over 2,000 feet above the mine,

built in the early 1900s: