Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Tues, August 18th, VELOCITY, HIPPIE TOWN, MINE CLEAN-UP

Today was a beautiful, sunny day and Gary & Texas friends' last full day in town.  We all headed out to Velocity, home of Shaun White's secret half-pipe practice for the 2009 winter Olympics.

Still a little snow around the lake:

 Gary & entourage hiking back to vehicles:


Gary & friends took the ATVs to Poughkeepsie.
Jim & I headed to Hippie Town in Minnehaha Basin. 
 Mattress still on top of tree at Hippie Town:
 The Lincoln Continental aka Marmot Condo has really deteriorated:

The flowers above Hippie town are still in full bloom: 


 Looking out the Jeep window into Glastone area:

 We were trying to see the Gold King Mine where the blowout occurred, 
but the road up was closed & guarded:
We just took another trail and climbed above the mine.
Here's looking down on it.  EPA doing clean-up? 
We saw the helicopter carrying Dr. Ben Carson circling the area. 
 Back at the coach, it was fun watching Gary load one of his ATVs with a busted transmission.  
Hoping they stop it on the trailer - that's our RV on the other side!
 This one, he was able to drive UP onto the trailer:
 Always fun watching Gary with his "toys"







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